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26 de ago. de 2013 · Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, was one of only two women invited to speak at the landmark 1963 March on Washington. Unable to attend 50 years ago ...
17 de mar. de 2023 · Myrlie Evers-Williams was thrust into the national spotlight after her husband and civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot and killed in 1963. She mourned her husband, but then she took up the ...
12 de jun. de 2023 · JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — At 90, Myrlie Evers-Williams still speaks in a clear, strong voice as she says she terribly misses her first love, civil rights icon Medgar Evers, and as she reflects on ...
The Myrlie Evers-Williams ’68 Collection will preserve her story and inspire generations of future activists, community leaders, historians and informed citizens, young and old. The collection has been sorted and work is underway to organize the thousands of writings, photographs and objects that tell Evers-Williams’ story and make them accessible to researchers and the public over time ...
6 de feb. de 2024 · Myrlie Evers-Williams was then just Myrlie Evers. She was in the White House with her children, still a grieving widow, and the president gave her a copy of that bill. And he promised her that he ...
13 de sept. de 2021 · Evers-Williams was born Myrlie Louise Beasley, the first child to her young mother and father. After graduating from Magnolia High School in 1950, she enrolled at Alcorn A&M College, now Alcorn State University, in Lorman, Mississippi, where she majored in education and became a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
22 de feb. de 2024 · Feb. 22, 2024. Joy-Ann Reid didn’t set out to publish her best-selling third book, “ Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America ” — which chronicles the lives ...
