Alabama NewsCenter — Myrlie Evers-Williams to receive Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s 2022 Shuttlesworth Award

By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) has selected Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of Medgar Evers, as this year’s recipient of the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award.

The award and other honors will be presented Nov. 18 during the BCRI’s 30th anniversary celebration and culminate a week of festivities and a one-night-only special exhibit highlighting three decades of archival acquisitions and programs.

Evers-Williams, a Mississippi native, has been a lifelong champion of civil rights, starting in the mid-1950s, when she and her husband opened the first National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) field office in their home state.

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