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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Research and Sources
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/20/us/woman-in-the-news-myrlie-evers-williams-tempering-troubled-waters.html
Kasher, Steven, The Civil Rights Movement, A Photographic History, 1954 – 1968. New York: Double Day, 1996.
Petty, Jill, “Myrlie Evers-Williams”, Ms., Magazine, January/February 1996, 43.
Evers, Myrlie, and Morris, Willie, For Us, the Living, University of Mississippi: Banner Press. 1996.
Evers, Williams, and Blau, Melinda, Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be. New York: Little Brown & Co., 1999.Evers, Williams, and Marable, Manning, The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches. New York: Basic Civitas Books., 2005.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/1/20/1177771/-Invocation-from-a-woman-of-courage-and-determination
Oliver, Velez, Denise, Invocation from a Woman of Courage and Determination, Daily Kos, January 20, 2013
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324539304578260030290569810
Bennett, Bruce, A Civil Rights Heroine Carries Her Torch Song to the Stage, The Wall Street Journal, January 23, 2013
https://magazine.pomona.edu/2013/spring/myrlie-in-the-mirror/
Schmich, Mary, Myrlie in the Mirror, Pomona College Magazine, March 28, 2013, 26-33
QUOTES
“Baby, you are here for a purpose. Don’t forget that purpose.”- Annie McCain Beasley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCNocSRPxyo - Myrlie Evers-Williams: To Be Determined, TEDx Bend (June 15, 2012)
“Baby don’t get your hopes up too high or you may be disappointed.”- Annie McCain Beasley
Evers, Williams, and Blau, Melinda, Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be. New York: Little Brown & Co., 1999, 42.
AUDIO AND VIDEOS –
http://repository.wustl.edu/concern/videos/gq67jt04b - Myrlie Evers-Williams: Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years (1954-1965), Washington University in St. Louis
(November 27, 1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCNocSRPxyo - Myrlie Evers-Williams: To Be Determined, TEDx Bend (June 15, 2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpug4Nq6U50 – Myrlie Evers-Williams: Invocation for President Obama’s Inauguration, PBS (January 21, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cfpYprW1V8 - Myrlie Evers-Williams: "Jim Crow is alive......." Interview with Rev. Al Sharpton, MSNBC (June 12, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3cMhOnQRRU – OmegaWorld Wonders: Clair de Lune 8 Hours: Claude Debussy, Relaxing Music, Deep Sleep, Study, Reading, Meditation (April 6, 2020)
NATIONAL VISIONARY LEADERSHIP PROJECT
The National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP) is the premier resource for oral history interviews with African American elders who shaped the 20th century.
http://www.visionaryproject.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibJFzOBtmag&t=31s
This interview recounts Medgar Wiley Evers’ assassination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGNC-Z3JaQI
This interview recounts Myrlie’s experience with bullies: ‘The Courthouse Gang’
Charlie Rose Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyak7EHPpv4
March 1, 2017
The Road to Carnegie Hall:
https://www.npr.org/2012/12/15/167271915/a-civil-rights-figures-long-road-to-carnegie-hall
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES:
The Civil Rights Act - 1964
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/civil-rights-act
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
https://www.naacp.org/
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/20/us/woman-in-the-news-myrlie-evers-williams-tempering-troubled-waters.html
Kasher, Steven, The Civil Rights Movement, A Photographic History, 1954 – 1968. New York: Double Day, 1996.
Petty, Jill, “Myrlie Evers-Williams”, Ms., Magazine, January/February 1996, 43.
Evers, Myrlie, and Morris, Willie, For Us, the Living, University of Mississippi: Banner Press. 1996.
Evers, Williams, and Blau, Melinda, Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be. New York: Little Brown & Co., 1999.Evers, Williams, and Marable, Manning, The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches. New York: Basic Civitas Books., 2005.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/1/20/1177771/-Invocation-from-a-woman-of-courage-and-determination
Oliver, Velez, Denise, Invocation from a Woman of Courage and Determination, Daily Kos, January 20, 2013
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324539304578260030290569810
Bennett, Bruce, A Civil Rights Heroine Carries Her Torch Song to the Stage, The Wall Street Journal, January 23, 2013
https://magazine.pomona.edu/2013/spring/myrlie-in-the-mirror/
Schmich, Mary, Myrlie in the Mirror, Pomona College Magazine, March 28, 2013, 26-33
QUOTES
“Baby, you are here for a purpose. Don’t forget that purpose.”- Annie McCain Beasley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCNocSRPxyo - Myrlie Evers-Williams: To Be Determined, TEDx Bend (June 15, 2012)
“Baby don’t get your hopes up too high or you may be disappointed.”- Annie McCain Beasley
Evers, Williams, and Blau, Melinda, Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be. New York: Little Brown & Co., 1999, 42.
AUDIO AND VIDEOS –
http://repository.wustl.edu/concern/videos/gq67jt04b - Myrlie Evers-Williams: Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years (1954-1965), Washington University in St. Louis
(November 27, 1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCNocSRPxyo - Myrlie Evers-Williams: To Be Determined, TEDx Bend (June 15, 2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpug4Nq6U50 – Myrlie Evers-Williams: Invocation for President Obama’s Inauguration, PBS (January 21, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cfpYprW1V8 - Myrlie Evers-Williams: "Jim Crow is alive......." Interview with Rev. Al Sharpton, MSNBC (June 12, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3cMhOnQRRU – OmegaWorld Wonders: Clair de Lune 8 Hours: Claude Debussy, Relaxing Music, Deep Sleep, Study, Reading, Meditation (April 6, 2020)
NATIONAL VISIONARY LEADERSHIP PROJECT
The National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP) is the premier resource for oral history interviews with African American elders who shaped the 20th century.
http://www.visionaryproject.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibJFzOBtmag&t=31s
This interview recounts Medgar Wiley Evers’ assassination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGNC-Z3JaQI
This interview recounts Myrlie’s experience with bullies: ‘The Courthouse Gang’
Charlie Rose Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyak7EHPpv4
March 1, 2017
The Road to Carnegie Hall:
https://www.npr.org/2012/12/15/167271915/a-civil-rights-figures-long-road-to-carnegie-hall
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES:
The Civil Rights Act - 1964
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/civil-rights-act
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
https://www.naacp.org/