Bennie Thompson applauds posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for Medgar Evers

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) was just a boy when civil rights leader Medgar Evers was gunned down in front of his Mississippi home in 1963. But Evers’s legacy left a lasting impact on the 13-term congressman. “I was very young when he died in his driveway, killed by a fellow who somehow saw him as…

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