Medgar and Myrlie

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Medgar Evers’s senior photo.

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Myrlie Beasley’s graduation photo from Magnolia High School in 1950.

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Myrlie on Alcorn A&M College’s campus.

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Medgar posing in his Army uniform in Cherbourg, France.

Medgar and Myrlie Evers on their wedding day on December 24, 1951.

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The Evers’s wedding party.

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Medgar and Myrlie in the early 1950s.

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Medgar with his children, Darrell Kenyatta and Reena.

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Myrlie and Reena.

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Medgar and Reena.

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Roy Wilkins and Medgar Evers being arrested for picketing outside a Woolworth’s department store in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963.

Medgar Evers and James Meredith at a press conference announcing Meredith’s decision to return to the University of Mississippi on January 30, 1963.

James Baldwin and Medgar Evers in Mississippi in 1963.

Martin Luther King Jr. (bottom left) leads the procession of mourners on their way to Medgar Evers’s funeral in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 15, 1963.

Myrlie at Medgar’s funeral.

The program for the historic 1963 March on Washington touting that “Mrs. Medgar Evers” was scheduled to address the crowd, though Myrlie was unable to attend.

The march almost didn’t include any female speakers; only after pressure from Anna Arnold Hedgeman, the only woman on the planning committee, was a “Tribute to Negro Women Fighters for Freedom” added to the program.

Myrlie addresses an NAACP Freedom Rally at Howard University on August 25, 1963. To her left is her son Darrell.

Myrlie and her children with then attorney general Robert F. Kennedy during an NAACP protest outside the Justice Department.

Demonstrators hold images of Medgar at a rally to protect Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on February 27, 2013.

Myrlie delivers the invocation at President Barack Obama’s second inaugural on January 21, 2013.

Myrlie and family at Medgar’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery on the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination.