Myrlie Evers isn't sure how she would have reacted ... killed by a white supremacist who targeted him for his work as the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. That was in 1963.

Both his wife Myrlie Evers-Williams and his brother Charles became prominent civil rights activists, with Myrlie serving as chairwoman of the NAACP from 1995 to 1998. In 1969, Medgar Evers College ...

He was serving as the NAACP’s first field secretary for Mississippi when a white supremacist shot and killed him in his driveway in 1963. Myrlie Evers-Williams, now 86, worked alongside her husband ...