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Nearly 750 celebrants attended the Medgar Evers gala—a black-tie, $100-a-ticket affair held at the Jackson Convention Complex that featured several high-profile guests, including Evers' widow Myrlie Evers-Williams.

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Evers Gala Tops Off Jackson Events

Fifty years after the assassination of Medgar Evers, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and civil-rights leader Jesse Jackson came together to celebrate Evers' life.

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