Myrlie Evers-Williams

Myrlie Evers-Williams
Evers-Williams at the Medgar Evers' christening, 2011
Chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
In office
1995–1998
Preceded byWilliam Gibson
Succeeded byJulian Bond
Personal details
Born
Myrlie Louise Beasley

(1933-03-17) March 17, 1933 (age 91)
Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.
Spouse(s)
(m. 1951; died 1963)

Walter Williams
(m. 1976; died 1995)
Children3
EducationAlcorn State University
Pomona College (BA)

Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams (née Beasley; born March 17, 1933) is an American civil rights activist and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her husband Medgar Evers, another civil rights activist. She also served as 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 the second inauguration of Barack Obama.