Medgar Evers home visitors question omissions to his story

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Visitors in 2025 to the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument described powerful tours from National Park Service rangers, but people who visited the house last month say they walked away puzzled by omissions both to the couple’s story and the motives of Medgar Evers’ assassin.

On Jan. 17, Jack Storms was part of a civil rights tour from the state of Washington, which visited the Evers home in Jackson. Before taking the trip, he did research about the home and one detail moved him — there were still bloodstains on the driveway where Medgar Evers was shot to death in 1963…

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