Yahoo Search Busca da Web

Resultado da Busca

  1. In 1963, Myrlie Evers-Williams' husband, civil rights icon Medgar Evers, was assassinated in Mississippi. Since his death, Williams has undertaken a courageous journey to honor her husband's ...

    • 2 min
  2. 9 de fev. de 2023 · Civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of NAACP leader Medgar Evers, pictured here in 2015, will be honored by Pomona College, her alma mater, at a ceremony March 22.

  3. 12 de jun. de 2023 · Myrlie Evers opens up about marriage to civil rights icon Medgar Evers 12:29. ... Her second husband, Walter Williams, encouraged her in 1995 to run for chairperson of the NAACP.

  4. 22 de jan. de 2013 · Evers-Williams was a 30-year-old wife and the mother of three young children when men came to her house in Jackson, Miss., on June 12, 1963, and shot her husband just steps from the front door.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Myrlie Evers-Williams (born March 17, 1933) is an African-American civil rights activist and journalist. She worked for over three decades to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her husband, Medgar Evers , a leader in the Civil Rights Movement .

  7. 4 de nov. de 2018 · Myrlie (Beasley) Evers-Williams is a civil rights activist, a journalist, author, and a former chair of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on March 17, 1933. She was raised by her grandmother, Annie McCain Beasley, a schoolteacher, after her parents separated … Read MoreMyrlie Louise (Beasley) Evers-Williams (1933- )