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President Donald Trump visits the Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi, Dec. 9, 2017.

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Trump toured the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and delivered brief remarks, paying tribute to African Americans who fought institutionalized racism, including Medgar Evers, the civil rights activist who was murdered outside his home in Jackson in 1963.

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