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Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Civil Rights Activist's Widow To Be Part Of Inauguration

The widow of civil rights activist, Medgar Evers, will deliver the invocation at President Barack Obama's second inauguration.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Tuesday that Myrlie Evers-Williams would deliver the prayer. It comes 50 years after her husband was gunned down in the driveway of his Mississippi home.

The inauguration falls on January 21, which is Martin Luther King Jr. Day Evers-Williams is a distinguished scholar at Alcorn State University in Lorman, Miss. She was also the chairwoman of the NAACP from 1995 to 1998.

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