Alcorn’s Myrlie Evers to speak at Obama inauguration

Alcorn’s Myrlie Evers to speak at Obama inauguration

Alcorn’s Myrlie Evers has accepted President Barack Obama’s invitation to deliver the invocation at his public inauguration on January 21. Evers, a champion for civil rights and the wife of civil rights martyr Medgar Wiley Evers ’52, is the first layperson chosen to deliver such a prominent prayer.

Evers was formally introduced to the Alcorn faculty at the 2011 Founders Day Convocation as the Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence.

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