Medgar and Myrlie Evers were powerful voices ... A veteran of United States armed forces, Medgar Evers joined the fight for equality upon returning to civilian life and served as the first NAACP field ...

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 ...

Myrlie Evers isn't sure how she ... where he died in 2001. Evers also served as the first female chair of the NAACP. In 2013, as President Barack Obama was sworn in for a second term, she became ...