The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Myrlie Evers-Williams

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Myrlie Evers-Williams

12/11/2017

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2017.219

Civic leader and civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams (1933 - ), widow of Medgar Evers, served as national director for community affairs for the Atlantic Richfield Company. She was named chairperson of the NAACP board of directors in 1995, and honored with the NAACP Spingarn Medal in 1998. Evers-Williams was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 12/11/2017, in Jackson, Mississippi. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 7; Total Run Time: 03h 22m 56s

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Evers-Williams, Myrlie.

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Civic leader and civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams was born on March 17, 1933 in Vicksburg, Mississippi to Mildred Washington Beasley and James Van Dyke Beasley. Raised by her paternal grandmother and aunt, who were both schoolteachers, Evers-Williams graduated from Magnolia High School in 1950, and enrolled at Alcorn A&M College.She married Medgar Evers in 1951, who she met on her first day at Alcorn A&M College. The couple moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi in 1952, where Ever...