Myrlie Evers-Williams

You know, I think about the Parchman tour I did and all the books I've read.

Uh, whether you're talking about Myrlie Evers, For Us, The Living, which is incredible, and I would under- I would argue required reading for every American, uh, upon becoming an adult, uh, or the William Winter, who, he was a great governor for us.

He, he-- Mississippi was the last state in the nation to have universal kindergarten, and William Winter made it happen just three years before I was born.

Thank you, William Winter.

From that day forward, he knew exactly what he was going to spend his life fighting.

He enrolled at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, where he met a young woman named Myrlie Beasley.

She was eighteen years old from Vicksburg, and she saw in Medgar someone whose ambition went far beyond what Mississippi would comfortably allow.

They married on Christmas Eve 1951.