Learn more about Myrlie Evers, the woman who just gave the invocation
en.wikipedia.orgHer husband, civil rights activist Medgar Evers, was shot in their driveway in 1963. Evers served as the chairwoman of the NAACP, and today, she became the first woman to give the invocation at a Presidential inauguration.
“Freedom has never been free. . . . I love my children and I love my wife-with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.”
—Medgar Evers
June 7, 1963.
Someone said … that Medgar did more in death than he accomplished in life. Now, I don’t know whether that’s so. But his death did accomplish a lot. And when I met with President [John F.] Kennedy and the children and Charles [Evers] … the president signed a draft copy of the civil-rights bill … he said to me, ‘Your husband’s death will make this possible.”
Myrlie Evers, August 21, 2004
Taken from “The Autobiography of Medgar Evers” (page 292)
Alcorn State Dedicates Medgar Wiley Evers Heritage Village
Alcorn students, alumni, employees, local elected officials, state legislators, visitors from Chamberlain Hunt Academy, former classmates and family members of Medgar Wiley Evers ‘52 gathered in the Oakland Memorial Chapel for Founders Day 2011 Convocation where his wife Myrlie Evers delivered the convocation address.
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