[Day 7 #BlackHistorySeries] #MyrlieEversWilliams (born March 17, 1933) is a civil rights activist and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the murder of her civil rights activist husband Medgar Evers in 1963. She was also chairwoman of the NAACP, and published several books on topics related to civil rights and her husband’s legacy. On January 21, 2013, she delivered the invocation at thesecond inauguration of Barack Obama.When Medgar Evers became the Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP) in 1954, Myrlie worked alongside him. Myrlie became his secretary and together they organized voter registration drives and civil rights demonstrations. She assisted him as he strove to end the practice of racial segregation in schools and other public facilities and campaigned for voting rights as many African Americans were denied this right in the South. For more than a decade, the Everses had fought for voting rights, equal access to public accommodations, the desegregation of theUniversity of Mississippi, and for equal rights in general for Mississippi's African American population. #DoResearch #BlackHistory #AfricanHistory #KissMyBlackArts #KMBA #SeekKnowledge #SeekTruth #SlimBabyGfx #YoungBlackandGold #WeComeFromRoyalty #1000Network http://ift.tt/1G1S8W4
