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...Walter Williams died of cancer. "She got home just in time for him to recognize her," says TIME's White. "It was literally a choice between life and death. He told her, 'It's too important, you have to go.'" Evers-Williams lost her first husband, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, to an assassin's bullet three decades...
...Walter Williams died of cancer. "She got home just in time for him to recognize her," says TIME's White. "It was literally a choice between life and death. He told her, 'It's too important, you have to go.'" Evers-Williams lost her first husband, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, to an assassin's bullet three decades...
...accused of misusing funds and doing nothing to stop sexual harassment of some employees. Chavis was fired last August amid charges that he used NAACP money to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit. The chief rival for Gibson's job is Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The organization's 64-member board is slated to elect an executive director tomorrow. While the ousting of Gibson seemed certain a few weeks ago, sources tell White the "count is very close...
...televised speech he delivered shortly before he was killed in cold blood in the summer of 1963, Medgar Evers boldly declared that "history has reached a turning point, here and over the world." His words, originally intended as commentary on the plight of the civil rights movement, might serve as a profound epitaph for two crucial events of last week--the conviction of Evers' murderer Byron de la Beckwith by a Mississippi jury and the decision by the Clinton administration to normalize relations with Vietnam...
Twenty-six years since the Tet offensive and 31 since the murder of Medgar Evers, bygones have finally become bygones--at least in the consciousness of America. But at our prestigious university, bygones still masquerade as contemporary issues...