# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/myrlie-evers-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:51:35.121Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/myrlie-evers-williams"
name: "Myrlie Evers-Williams"
slug: "myrlie-evers-williams"
description: "Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams is an American civil rights activist and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her husband Medgar Evers, another civil rights activist. She also served as chairwoman of the NAACP, and has published several books on topics related to civil rights and her husband's legacy. On January 21, 2013, she delivered the invocation at the second inauguration of Barack Obama."
tagline: "American civil rights activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Myrlie_Evers-Williams.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1933-03-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.46
  momentum:             18.16087308003234
  historical:           9.701098666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0263663/"
    handle:    "nm0263663"
sources:
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    title: "Myrlie Evers-Williams"
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    title: "Myrlie Evers-Williams"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Myrlie Evers-Williams"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump