United States Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, left, and U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., right, confer outside the house that is the Medgar and Myrlie Evers National Monument, Friday, June 21, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. The house was one of the stops Buttigieg made as he spent Thursday and Friday in Mississippi, promoting projects that will be helped or will be receiving money from a federal infrastructure act. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, second from right, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., second from left, and Mississippi Transportation Commissioner for the Central District Willie Simmons, left, listen as Reena Evers-Everette, speaks about her life as a young child in the home of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Friday, June 21, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. The house, the Medgar and Myrlie Evers National Monument, was one of the stops Buttigieg made as he spent Thursday and Friday in Mississippi, promoting projects that will be helped or will be receiving money from a federal infrastructure act. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool)
Reena Evers-Everette, front left, daughter of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, left, welcomes U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, front right, and Mississippi Transportation Commissioner for the Central District Willie Simmons, center, to the home of her father, assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Friday, June 21, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. The house, now the Medgar and Myrlie Evers National Monument, was one of the stops Buttigieg made as he spent Thursday and Friday in Mississippi, promoting projects that will be helped or will be receiving money from a federal infrastructure act. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, left, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., center, listen as Reena Evers-Everette, points out photographs of her five-year-old self and her older brother Darrell Kenyatta Evers, then six, on top of her mother's piano, as a group of dignitaries toured the home of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Friday, June 21, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. The house, the Medgar and Myrlie Evers National Monument, was one of the stops Buttigieg made as he spent Thursday and Friday in Mississippi, promoting projects that will be helped or will be receiving money from a federal infrastructure act. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, left, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., center, listen as Reena Evers-Everette, speaks about her life as the daughter of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, during a tour of their home, Friday, June 21, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. The house, the Medgar and Myrlie Evers National Monument, was one of the stops Buttigieg made as he spent Thursday and Friday in Mississippi, promoting projects that will be helped or will be receiving money from a federal infrastructure act. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool)
Reena Evers-Everette, left, daughter of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, left, welcomes U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, second from right, Mississippi Transportation Commissioner for the Central District Willie Simmons, second from left, and U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., right, to the home of her father, assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Friday, June 21, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, left, listens as Reena Evers-Everette, recalls her mother Myrlie Evers playing the piano when she was a small child, as a group of dignitaries toured the home of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Friday, June 21, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. The house, the Medgar and Myrlie Evers National Monument, was one of the stops Buttigieg made as he spent Thursday and Friday in Mississippi, promoting projects that are receiving money or will be helped from a federal infrastructure act. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool)
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., left, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, second from left, Reena Evers-Everette, center, listen as Keena Graham of the National Park Service, right, speaks about the home of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Friday, June 21, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. The house, the Medgar and Myrlie Evers National Monument, was one of the stops Buttigieg made as he spent Thursday and Friday in Mississippi, promoting projects that will be helped or will be receiving money from a federal infrastructure act. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool)