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Evers-Williams, Myrlie

Biography:

"Myrlie Louise Beasley African American activist and the wife of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, whose racially motivated murder in 1963 made him a national icon. In 1995–98 Evers-Williams was the first woman to head the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)."--"Evers-Williams, Myrlie." Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 25 Apr. 2008 .

Alternate Names:

Evers, Myrlie B.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Barbara C. Jordan Archives (Portal to Texas History)
  • Remarks of Barbara Jordan (Speeches (documents))
• Eyes on the Prize Interviews (Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries)
• Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001 (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
  • Oral history interview with Krendell Petway Dendy and Reverend Alfonso K. Petway, 2001 (Oral histories)
• Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress)
  • [Events honoring Rosa Parks, Washington, D.C.] [graphic]. (Photographic printsColor1990-2000.gmgpc)
  • [Mamie Till-Mobley, Rosa Parks, Elaine Steele, Myrlie Evers Williams and Betty Shabazz at a session during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, 25th Legislative Conference, Washington, D.C., Sept., 1995] [graphic]. (Photographic printsColor1990-2000.gmgpc)
  • [Myrlie Evers-Williams (left), Coretta Scott King (center) and Betty Shabazz at the National Political Congress of Black Women, Washington, D.C., 1995] [graphic]. (Photographic printsColor1990-2000.gmgpc)
  • [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, 1994] [graphic]. (Photographic printsColor1990-2000.gmgpc)
  • Press Conf. [i.e., Conference] of National Political Black Women's Congress, Congressional Black Caucus, Sept., 1995 [graphic]. (Photographic printsColor1990-2000.gmgpc)
  • [Rosa Parks, Myrlie Evers Williams, Toni Fay (standing, far right) and others at a session of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, 25th Legislative Conference, Washington, D.C., Sept., 1995] [graphic]. (Photographic printsColor1990-2000.gmgpc)
  • [Rosa Parks with C. Delores Tucker, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Coretta Scott King, National Political Congress of Black Women, Washington, D.C., 1995] [graphic]. (Photographic printsColor1990-2000.gmgpc)
  • [Rosa Parks with C. Delores Tucker, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Coretta Scott King, National Political Congress of Black Women, Washington, D.C., 1995] [graphic]. (Photographic printsColor1990-2000.gmgpc)
  • [Rosa Parks with Mamie Till Mobley, C. Delores Tucker, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Betty Shabazz, Elaine Steele, National Political Congress of Black Women, Washington, D.C., 1995] [graphic]. (Photographic printsColor1990-2000.gmgpc)
  • [Speakers at a session of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, 25th Legislative Conference, Washington, D.C., Sept., 1995] [graphic]. (Photographic printsColor1990-2000.gmgpc)
• Southern school news (University of Georgia Libraries)
  • Southern school news (Periodicals)