Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams is an American civil rights activist and journalist who has worked for more than three decades to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her husband by Medgar Evers, another civil rights activist. She also served as the NAACP president and has published a number of books on topics related to her husband's civil rights and inheritance rights. On January 21, 2013, she made a plea at Barack Obama's second inauguration.
| Born | Myrlie Louise Beasley, March 17, 1933, Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Alcorn A&M College, Pomona College |
| Occupation | Activist |
Civil Rights Leader Myrlie Evers-Williams was born in Mississippi, United States on March 17, 1933. She's 90 years old today.
African-American civil rights crusader who served as the NAACP's Chairwoman and spent three decades seeking justice for the murder of her first husband, also a civil rights pioneer.
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Myrlie Evers-Williams was born in the Zodiac sign Pisces (The Fish), and 1933 is also the year of Rooster (雞) in the Chinese Zodiac.
In 1954, she and her husband, who was the NAACP's field secretary at the time, started working for the organization. In Mississippi, they battled for voting rights and desegregation.
She was the first woman and the first layperson to offer the invocation at President US President Barack Obama's second inauguration.
She was married to Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers from 1951 to 1963, when he was assassinated. In 1975, she married Walter Williams, with whom she remained until his death in 1995.
She was portrayed by Movie Actress Whoopi Goldberg in the film Ghosts of Mississippi, which depicted the events surrounding her husband's assassination.
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