a day after the 50-year-commemoration of *medgar evers' assasination*-- alcorn state university unveiled something to honor him. Skip to content NOWCAST 16 WAPT News at 6 ...

A special two-day event celebrating the life and legacy of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers will be held in early July ...

Former NAACP Chairman Myrlie Evers-Williams will speak to Alcorn State University graduates at the school's 143rd commencement.Alcorn will award 440 bachelor's degrees and 156 master's degrees on ...

LORMAN – Former NAACP Chairman Myrlie Evers will speak to Alcorn State University graduates at the school’s 143rd commencement on Saturday. Evers may be best remembered as the widow of Medgar ...

Myrlie Evers-Williams announced her resignation from Alcorn State University as a distinguished scholar-in-residence. Evers-Williams said in a statement, she will leave her teaching and mentoring ...

LORMAN, Miss. (AP) - Former NAACP Chairman Myrlie Evers will speak to Alcorn State University graduates at the school’s 143rd commencement. Alcorn will award 440 bachelor’s degrees and 156 ...

Introducing Myrlie Evers. Myrlie Beasley hoped to become a concert pianist when she arrived at Alcorn A&M College, now known as Alcorn State University, in Lorman, Miss.

While at Alcorn State University, Evers met Myrlie Beasley, and soon the pair were married. When the pair married, they became partners in their activism. Myrlie Beasley, later Evers, was born in ...

Myrlie and Medgar, both native Mississippians, met at historically black Alcorn State University, in Lorman, Miss., during Myrlie Beasley's first day on campus. At 18, she was married to Medgar ...

He graduated from Alcorn Agricutural and Mechanical College, which is now Alcorn State University, in 1952 and began working as an insurance salesman in Philadelphia, Miss. Evers and his older ...

Alcorn will award 440 bachelor’s degrees and 156 master’s degrees on Saturday in Lorman. Myrlie Evers may be best remembered as the widow of Medgar Evers, the NAACP state field secretary who ...