Medgar Evers’ family fights efforts to strip his name from Navy vessel Medgar Evers’ family fights efforts to strip his name from Navy vesselby Lili Euzet and Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today June 11, 2025A week after Pentagon leaders announced their intention to possib...

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📌 “The USNS Medgar Evers was not named to make a political statement. It was named to reflect a deeper truth: that freedom is not free—and some Americans have paid dearly for it.”

Evers was among those who arrived on the beaches of Normandy after the D-Day invasion in 1944. #USNS #Medgar_Evers