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Evers-Williams in 2000. Myrlie Evers-Williams continued to explore ways to serve her community and to work with the NAACP. Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley appointed her to the Board of Public Works as a commissioner in 1987. [2] Evers-Williams was the first black woman to serve as a commissioner on the board, a position she held for 8 years.
Medgar Wiley Evers (/ ˈ m ɛ d ɡ ər /; July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi.
Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American biographical courtroom drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods.The film is based on the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
In a press release issued by the Evers-Everette family, Nicole Evers-Everette, had left her apartment in Duluth, Georgia on Sept. 22 and was not heard from until she was found Friday morning.
At 90, Myrlie Evers-Williams still speaks in a clear, strong voice as she says she terribly misses her first love, civil rights icon Medgar Evers, and as she reflects on his work — and her own ...
While the return of Eyes on the Prize to public television and the educational market depended on the contributions of many, four individuals in particular are credited with achieving the complicated undertaking of rights renewals and the re-release of the series: Sandra Forman, Legal Counsel and Project Director; Cynthia Meagher Kuhn ...
“Under the Bridge,” a new true-crime series on Hulu, is set to show viewers a dramatized version of the case of Reena Virk, a 14-year-old Canadian girl who was murdered near Victoria, Canada ...
Arriving home around midnight, Evers, standing in the carport, was shot by Byron de la Beckwith, using a sniper rifle, from an undeveloped lot about 200 feet (61 m) away. The bullet passed through the house's picture window, and through the wall between the living room and kitchen before coming to rest. Evers died early the next morning. [4]