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Myrlie Evers-Williams

Widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. From 1995 to 1998, she served as the chair of the NAACP. Prior to that, she was the first African-American woman to be appointed to the Los Angeles Board of Public Works. She has written two books: For Us, the Living, with William Peters, and an autobiography, Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be.

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50 Years After March on Washington, Tens of Thousands Say Struggle for MLK’s “Dream” Continues

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Medgar Evers’ Murder, 50 Years Later: Widow Myrlie Evers-Williams Remembers “A Man for All Time”

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Myrlie Evers-Williams on the 45th Anniversary of the Murder of Her Husband, Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers

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Betty Shabazz, Widow of African-American Civil Rights Leader Malcolm X, Dies at 61

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