FILE - In this June 15, 1963 file photo, Mrs. Medgar Evers comforts her 9-year-old son, Darrel, at the funeral in Jackson, Miss. for slain integration leader Medgar Evers. Several events are being held to remember Evers, the first Mississippi field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was 37 when he was assassinated outside the family’s north Jackson home on June 12, 1963. (AP Photo/file)