Thursday, November 24, 2011

Slain Civil Rights Leader Serves U.S. Military

"Navy ship named for Medgar Evers

SAN DIEGO - The widow of Medgar Evers broke a bottle of champagne on the hull of a new Navy cargo ship named for the slain civil rights leader. Myrlie Evers was among 1,000 people at the christening of the USNS Medgar Evers yesterday. He was slain in 1963."