MYRLIE EVERS-WILLIAMS
Born March 17, 1933 Myrlie was a civil rights leadet. as the first fulltime chairman of the NAACP to take office in 1995, she served in that capacity until 1998. in 1987, Myrlie became the first black woman appointed to serve as commissioner on teh Los Angeles Board of Public Works. she is also the distinguished author of For Us,the Living, and Watch Me Fly: What I Learned On the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be.