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Reena Evers-Everette, daughter of civil rights icon Medgar Evers speaks during the “Daddys’ Daughters” Medgar Evers 100 event, held Thursday night, June 26, 2025 at the Jackson Convention Center. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

“Love is what resonates throughout my life, because that’s what I grew up with and that’s what my father instilled in us,” she said.

The panelists spent time honoring their mothers. Years after her father was murdered for fighting for voting rights, Bettie Dahmer’s mother Ellie would serve as an election commissioner. 

Evers-Everette credits her mother, Myrlie Evers, with the phrase “You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.” 

Myrlie Evers later served as chairman of the NAACP.

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