Newton County resident Walter Gardner remembers Evers' death and the movement that followed.

NPR: The Legacy of Medgar Evers

After years of challenging the way voting districts are drawn, he succeeded in creating a majority black district in Newton County, and in 1991 was elected the first black county supervisor.

NPR: The Legacy of Medgar Evers

It's part of Medgar Evers' legacy paid for in blood and stamped on the lives of Mississippians, from the state capital in Jackson to the cornfields of Newton County where Medgar Evers grew up.

NPR: The Legacy of Medgar Evers

Today, Newton County is 30 percent black.

NPR: The Legacy of Medgar Evers

It is also expected that office premises in Chelston in Somerset and County Hall in Exeter, Newton Abbot and Barnstaple will be retained.

BBC: Somerset

Liberal Democrat Mr Rogerson was part of a delegation from the county - which included Truro and Falmouth Conservative MP Sarah Newton and former North Cornwall Liberal Democrat MP Lord Tyler - who met Ms Soubry on Tuesday to ask for the research to be carried out.

BBC: Lowermoor treatment works, Camelford