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Myrlie Evers-Williams
American civil rights activist (born )
Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams (née Beasley; born March 17, ) is an American civil rights activist and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the murder of her husband Medgar Evers, another civil rights activist.
She also served as chairwoman of the NAACP, and has published several books on topics related to civil rights and her husband's legacy. On January 21, , she delivered the invocation at the second inauguration of Barack Obama.
Myrlie evers-williams speech
Early life
Evers-Williams was born Myrlie Louise Beasley on March 17, , in her maternal grandmother's home in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She was the daughter of James Van Dyke Beasley, a delivery man, and Mildred Washington Beasley, who was 16 years old.[1] Myrlie's parents separated when she was just a year old; her mother left Vicksburg but decided that Myrlie was too young to travel with her.
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