Oral History Interviews
Title
Myrlie Evers-Williams: Memory, Space, and the Civil Rights Museum
Files
Download Mississippi Museums, May 2015 (358 KB)
Description
In 2013, the Southern Documentary Project conducted an oral history interview with Myrlie Evers-Williams on a range of topics for the film The Toughest Job: William Winter’s Mississippi and the Farish Street Project.
Evers-Williams is activist, journalist, and former head of the NAACP. In 1963, her husband, Medgar Wiley Evers, was gunned down by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in their driveway in Jackson as she and their children waited inside to welcome him home.
In this interview, Evers-Williams discusses her feelings about seeing the Mississippi State Fairgrounds, where police incarcerated and brutalized civil rights protesters in 1963. The Fairgrounds are just down the hill from the site of the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History, which opened December 9, 2017.
Publication Date
2013
Relational Format
video recording
Disciplines
American Studies | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Evers-Williams, Myrlie; Harper, Andy; and Walton, Becca, "Myrlie Evers-Williams: Memory, Space, and the Civil Rights Museum" (2013). Oral History Interviews. 2.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cssc_interviews/2
Comments
This interview was edited by Andy Harper of SouthDocs. A photos of the 2 Mississippi Museums under construction in March 2017 by Becca Walton is available as an Additional File.