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1. Juli 2020 · NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Medgar Evers who was assassinated in their home state of Mississippi, about the state removing the Confederate insignia from its flag.
13. Sept. 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.
The following are excerpts from two oral history interviews with Myrlie Evers-Williams ’68 conducted at Pomona College in Fall 2022. In these conversations, she reflects about her career, legacy, family and hopes for the future.
11. Juni 2023 · NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated 60 years ago. His wife, the activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, has fought for his civil rights legacy ever since.
Known primarily as the widow of the civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Myrlie Evers-Williams has proven to be an influential African American civil rights activist in her own right. Myrlie Louise Beasley was born in Vicksburg on 17 March 1933. Her parents were Mildred Washington Beasley and James Van Dyke Beasley, but she was raised […]
Myrlie Evers is perhaps best remembered as the widow of Medgar Evers, Mississippi’s first state field secretary for the NAACP, who in 1963, was gunned down in the driveway of their home in Jackson, Mississippi. She waged a painstaking battle to keep her husband’s memory and dreams alive, and valiantly lobbied to bring his killer to justice. In 1994, her diligence eventually paid off when ...
29. März 2023 · Claremont, California — Myrlie Evers-Williams says she has never lived a day of her 90 years without love. But she has undoubtedly battled hate. As the widow of the late civil rights icon Medgar ...
