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  1. A conversation with Myrlie Evers-Williams
    A conversation with Myrlie Evers-Williams

    with Myrlie Evers-Williams on Oct 5, 1995

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Myrlie Evers-Williams

Myrlie Evers-Williams is an African American activist and was the first full-time chairman of the NAACP (1995 - 1998). She is also the widow of murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

Evers-Williams served as director of consumer affairs for Atlantic Richfield Company, where she developed the concept for the first corporate booklet on women in non-traditional jobs. In 1987, Evers-Williams was the first African-American woman appointed to serve as commissioner on the Los Angeles Board of Public Works. Evers-Williams was chairman of the NAACP from 1995 to 1998. She is the author of ‘For Us, the Living’ (1967) and ‘Watch Me Fly: What I Learned On the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be’ (1999) and the bestseller, ‘I Dream A World: Black Women Who Changed America’.

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