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Civil RIghts Icon to Speak Tonight
Myrlie Evers-Williams, first female NCAAP president, will speak at Moorpark High School.
Civil rights icon Myrlie Evers-Williams will speak at Moorpark High School tonight as part of Teaching American History's Distinguished Speaker Series.
Evers-Williams was the first female president of the NCAAP in the 1990s and, in 2009, was honored by the U.S. Civil Rights Museum with the Freedom Award along with the Dalai Lama and basketball player Julius Erving.
She is the widow of assassingated civil rights leader Medgar Evans, who was killed in Mississippi in 1963 as he entered his Jackson home. Though his assassin wasn't convicted until 1994, his murder helped bring attention to the intensity of racism in the south and directly influenced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Evers-Williams will speak from 6:15 to 8:30 p.m. tonight at Moorpark High School's Performing Arts Center. The talk is free and open to the public.
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