Myrlie Evers-Williams by Kenneth Hamrick https://padlet.com/kjhamrick/h55by83tstay Listen to the Women en-us 2019-03-07 15:03:08 UTC 2019-03-11 01:59:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Myrlie Evers-Williams kjhamrick https://padlet.com/kjhamrick/h55by83tstay/wish/338890854 March 17th, 1933-Present]]> 2019-03-07 15:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kjhamrick/h55by83tstay/wish/338890854 Early Life kjhamrick https://padlet.com/kjhamrick/h55by83tstay/wish/338891970 Myrlie Evers-Williams was born on March 17th, 1933 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Was raised by her grandmother. Williams grew up in the segregated South, so she went to Alcorn A&M College, one of the only colleges in the state that accepted African American students. ]]> 2019-03-07 15:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kjhamrick/h55by83tstay/wish/338891970 About Her kjhamrick https://padlet.com/kjhamrick/h55by83tstay/wish/339776876 She was a journalist and an American Civil Rights activist. Evers worked for over three decades to seek justice for the murder of her civil rights activist husband Medgar Evers who was murdered in 1963. She served as chairwoman of the NAACP from 1995-1998. She has published several books on topics related to civil rights and her husband’s legacy. While fighting to bring his killer to justice, Evers-Williams also continued her husband's work with her book, For Us, The Living. She also wrote Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be. Evers-Williams served as chair of the NAACP from 1995 to 1998.]]> 2019-03-11 01:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kjhamrick/h55by83tstay/wish/339776876 On January 21, 2013, she delivered the invocation at the second inauguration of Barack Obama. kjhamrick https://padlet.com/kjhamrick/h55by83tstay/wish/339777055 2019-03-11 01:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kjhamrick/h55by83tstay/wish/339777055 In her Ted Talk, she spoke about what we as involved American’s must do to speak truth to power, and what struck me was that she wasn’t speaking from a place of hate and was speaking about the power of love and how that is always more powerful. kjhamrick https://padlet.com/kjhamrick/h55by83tstay/wish/339777392 2019-03-11 01:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kjhamrick/h55by83tstay/wish/339777392 Her Speech at the Presidential Invocation in 201 kjhamrick https://padlet.com/kjhamrick/h55by83tstay/wish/339777659 2019-03-11 01:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kjhamrick/h55by83tstay/wish/339777659