(RNS) Myrlie Evers-Williams, 79, the widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, will be the first laywoman to give an invocation at a presidential inauguration when she prays at President Obama's swearing-in on Jan. 21.
The author, civil rights and political activist and former NAACP chairman is a scholar at Alcorn State University in Mississippi.
She talked with Religion News Service about the upcoming confluence of events: the second inauguration of the nation's first African-American president, the 50th anniversary of her husband's death in June 1963, and the swearing-in occurring on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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