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Related: About this forumMyrlie Evers-Williams backs Hillary Clinton, urges voters to 'take sides'
Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of the slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, is calling on young Americans and those apathetic about voting to take sides in the 2016 election to stop a racist tide thats raising its ugly face in America.
And shes announcing she's on Hillary Clinton's side.
Ive lived long enough to see the ugliest of it all, Evers-Williams said in an interview with USA TODAY in which she endorsed the former first lady.
Its time to call out and say, take sides. You cannot sit back and observe. Become involved and do what you feel is best. Do not allow evil to overtake this America of ours, said Evers-Williams, approaching her 83rd birthday.
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Evers-Williams worked alongside her husband in the civil rights movement and continued his work after his death. She was one of the first African-American women to run for Congress and served as an NAACP chairperson.....
Her slain husband had worked on desegregating schools and public buildings and trying to secure voting rights. He was shot in front of the family house in Jackson on June 12, 1963, in front of his wife and three children just hours after President John F. Kennedy, in a nationally televised address, called on Congress to pass a civil rights bill.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/07/myrlie-evers-williams-hillary-clinton/81410354/
And shes announcing she's on Hillary Clinton's side.
Ive lived long enough to see the ugliest of it all, Evers-Williams said in an interview with USA TODAY in which she endorsed the former first lady.
Its time to call out and say, take sides. You cannot sit back and observe. Become involved and do what you feel is best. Do not allow evil to overtake this America of ours, said Evers-Williams, approaching her 83rd birthday.
...
Evers-Williams worked alongside her husband in the civil rights movement and continued his work after his death. She was one of the first African-American women to run for Congress and served as an NAACP chairperson.....
Her slain husband had worked on desegregating schools and public buildings and trying to secure voting rights. He was shot in front of the family house in Jackson on June 12, 1963, in front of his wife and three children just hours after President John F. Kennedy, in a nationally televised address, called on Congress to pass a civil rights bill.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/07/myrlie-evers-williams-hillary-clinton/81410354/
She gave the invocation at President Obama's last inauguration-
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Myrlie Evers-Williams backs Hillary Clinton, urges voters to 'take sides' (Original Post)
Rose Siding
Mar 2016
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Cha
(297,935 posts)1. OH Good! What a precious lady she is!
Mahalo Rose~
livetohike
(22,169 posts)2. Wonderful endorsement! Wonderful person! n/t
👍
stonecutter357
(12,698 posts)3. K&R!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)4. K & R
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)5. Thanks, good endorsements.
Tanuki
(14,926 posts)6. This brilliant, fearless woman is still going strong! She has sacrificed so much in her lifetime.
She also knows that changing society takes hard work, perseverance, and a hell of a lot more than flaming people on the internet. She lived to see justice meted out for the murder of her first husband, and she never gave up, even though it took thirty years:
http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-Myrlie-Evers-Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrlie_Evers-Williams
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)7. Excellent!
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)8. K&R
William769
(55,148 posts)9. Kick & very highly recommended!
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)10. GREAT endorsement!
from a wonderful woman. Unfortunately, she's next under that bus.
pandr32
(11,637 posts)11. She is right..."take sides"
Far too much at stake not to.
Excellent endorsement from a remarkable woman.
Loki
(3,825 posts)12. Thank you Myrlie
Knowing what your family had to endure, as do many still today, we all need to realize that to argue with each other, only strengthens the racist republicans, and I know that is where the true enemy is.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)13. K&R!
riversedge
(70,419 posts)14. I like that pic of her with the Pres and VP . thanks
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)15. K&R!
Tarheel_Dem
(31,250 posts)16. K&R!