Local News in Brief : Widow Accepts Award for Evers
Myrlie Evers Miller of Los Angeles says that speaking at the University of Mississippi and accepting an award for her late husband was a moving experience.
“Most of all I hope that Medgar Evers will be in the hearts and minds of people, particularly in our youths,” she said after the ceremony. “Not just in the minds of black youth, but in white youth as well, so that we can join hands to make the future one full of opportunity.”
Evers, the NAACP field director who was shot and killed in Jackson in 1963, is one of six black Mississippians chosen to receive Ole Miss Awards of Distinction from the university.
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