Hello, I am Myrlie Evers-Williams.

Accomplishments:

• I got Byron De La Beckwith put in jail for murdering my husband.
• I became a chairperson for the NAACP.
• I wrote many books.
• I have spoken at many events.
• I received the National Freedom Award in 2009.

Birthday

• March 17, 1933

Education:

• Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (Lorman, Mississippi)
  
  • I planned to major in education and minor in music.

Occupation:

• Civil Rights Activist
• Journalist
  • Major Works
    • Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be (by Melinda Blau and I in 1999)
    • For Us, The Living (which I wrote with William Peters; 1967, 1999)
    • The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life And Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, And Speeches (an autobiography of my deceased husband's life that I wrote with Manning Marable in 2006"
    • No Mountain High Enough: Secrets of Successful African American Women (by Dorothy Ehrhart-Morrison and I in 1997)

Family:

• Annie McCain Beasley 
  • My Grandmother
  • She raised me to be the strong woman that I am today.  
• Myrlie Beasley Polk 
  • My Aunt
  • She taught me how to play the piano.
• Medgar Evers (First Husband)
  • I met him on my first day of college and we fell in love.
  • We got married on December 24, 1951.
  • Medgar was killed June 12, 1963
• James Van Evers 
  • Me and Medgar's son
• Darrel Kenyatta Evers 
  • Me and Medgar's Son
• Reena Denise Evers 
  • Me and Medgar's daughter
• Walter Williams
  • My second husband
  • We got married in 1976.
  • He passed away in 1995.

Facts:

• My family has been threatened by the KKK.
• I enjoy playing the piano.
• My two oldest children met John F. Kennedy on June 20, 1963.
• Whoopi Goldberg played me in a movie called "Ghosts of Mississippi".

Organizations and memberships:

• NAACP
  • Chairperson (1995)

• the Board of Public Works
  • Commissioner (1987)

Goal:

• My goal was to bring my husband's murderer to justice!
  • The juries were all white, which made it difficult to do so at first, but I kept fighting.  
    • After approximately 30 years, I got my point across and got Beckwith locked up in jail.

Signature Quote(s):

• (After being asked what Medgar would think of American society now) "He would look at the landscape of this country and realize what so many of us have said: We have made progress...but there's still so much to be done, and if we don't guard the progress we've made, that, too, will slip away."
•  "We are cursed as human beings with this element that's called hatred, prejudice, and racism ... But it is my belief that, as it was Medgar's, that there is something good and decent in each and every one of us, and we have to call on that, and we have to find a way to work together."
• (On the grudge I hold with the murderer of Medgar, Byron De La Beckwith) "People have said, 'Let it go, it's been a long time. Why bring up all the pain and anger again?' But I can't let it go. It's not finished for me, my children or four grandchildren."

Citations: 

http://www.answers.com/topic/myrlie-evers-williams#ixzz2W9YDcqlb

http://www.biography.com/people/myrlie-evers-williams-205624

http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/myrlie-evers.html

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20130612_Widow_of_Medgar_Evers_works_to_uphold_his_legacy.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrlie_Evers-Williams#Accomplishments