Medgar Evers Navy

AP News - 861 days ago
Medgar Evers Navy
File - Medgar Evers, NAACP's first field secretary for the state of Mississippi stands nearby a sign of the state Mississippi in this 1958 file photo. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, a former governor of Mississippi, plans to announce Evers is being honored with a Navy cargo ship named for him during a speech Friday Oct. 9, 2009 at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Francis H. Mitchell - Ebony Collection, File)