Myrlie Evers-Williams backs Hillary Clinton, urges voters to 'take sides' [View all]

[Rose Siding]

Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of the slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, is calling on young Americans and those apathetic about voting to “take sides” in the 2016 election to stop a racist tide that’s “raising its ugly face in America.”

And she’s announcing she's on Hillary Clinton's side.

“I’ve lived long enough to see the ugliest of it all,” Evers-Williams said in an interview with USA TODAY in which she endorsed the former first lady.

“It’s time to call out and say, take sides. You cannot sit back and observe. Become involved and do what you feel is best. Do not allow evil to overtake this America of ours,” said Evers-Williams, approaching her 83rd birthday.
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Evers-Williams worked alongside her husband in the civil rights movement and continued his work after his death. She was one of the first African-American women to run for Congress and served as an NAACP chairperson.....
Her slain husband had worked on desegregating schools and public buildings and trying to secure voting rights. He was shot in front of the family house in Jackson on June 12, 1963, in front of his wife and three children — just hours after President John F. Kennedy, in a nationally televised address, called on Congress to pass a civil rights bill.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/07/myrlie-evers-williams-hillary-clinton/81410354/

She gave the invocation at President Obama's last inauguration-