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S 2889 115th Congress Senate Public Lands and Natural Resources Higher education Historic sites and heritage areas Mississippi Monuments and memorials Racial and ethnic relations

Medgar Evers Home National Monument Act

Introduced: May 21, 2018 Introduced by: Wicker, Roger F. Republican · Mississippi See on congress.gov
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Aug 15, 2018
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 115-526.
May 21, 2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
May 21, 2018
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Medgar Evers Home National Monument Act

This bill establishes the Medgar Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi, as a unit of the National Park System to preserve, protect, and interpret the resources associated with the pivotal role of Medgar Evers in the civil rights movement.

The National Park Service shall enter into a cooperative agreement with Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi, for interpretive and educational programming related to the monument and may enter into other cooperative agreements to carry out this bill.

What's happening now August 15, 2018

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 115-526.

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Hyde-Smith, Cindy
Mississippi · May 21, 2018
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2889: Medgar Evers Home National Monument Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2889/
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"S. 2889: Medgar Evers Home National Monument Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2889/.
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S. 2889, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2889/.
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