Myrlie Evers-Williams

Myrlie Evers Williams is an American civil rights activist and former NAACP chairwoman who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her husband and fellow activist Medgar Evers. She recounts her journey as a community leader in her memoir Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be .

Myrlie Evers Williams is an American civil rights activist and former NAACP chairwoman who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her husband and fellow activist Medgar Evers. She recounts her journey as a community leader in her memoir Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be . See less