Myrlie Evers-Williams, now 86, worked alongside her husband starting in the 1950s and continued to work as a civil rights activist for decades after his death. (She changed her name after remarrying ...

Evers's family carried his legacy forward. Both his wife Myrlie Evers-Williams and his brother Charles became prominent civil rights activists, with Myrlie serving as chairwoman of the NAACP from ...

"Often times we hear people say today that the civil rights movement started when Rosa Parks sat on the bus in the wrong place, or that it really started with Dr. King. What we fail to recognize ...