Daughter of assassinated civil rights leader sees painful echoes of political violence in America
'It's painful,' said Reena Evers-Everette. 'It's very painful.'
Evers-Everette was 8 years old when her father, a field secretary for the NAACP, was shot to death in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
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