Shortly after midnight on June 12th, 1963, Medgar Evers, returned to his Jackson, Mississippi home after an evening of NAACP functions. As he left his car with a handful of t-shirts that read “Jim Crow Must Go,” he was shot in the back. His wife and children, who had been waiting up for him, found him bleeding to death on the doorstep. His widow Myrlie Evers remembered opening the door and seeing Medgar face down in blood. She recalls the children shouting “Daddy, get up.”
Fifty minutes later Medgar Evers died he was 37 years old.
Romans 8:28 tells us “we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.”
But how does things work together for good, when your spouse has been shot dead as your three young children watched.
For six decades Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams has been a civil rights, activist and journalist working on the battlefield for civil rights. Seeking and receiving justice for her husband murder, writing books correcting history, and serving as chairwoman of the NAACP at perhaps the most critical time for the nation’s premier civil rights group. Finding love again marring civil rights and union activist Walter Williams. And delivering the invocation at the second inaugural of President Barack Obama in 2013.
Now in her 90th year Myrlie Evers-Williams has outlived two husbands and while that grim night of June 12th, 1963, will be forever etched in memory. She has turned what was meant for evil into good and in the process has shown us God will work together for good for those who are called according to his purpose.
God has called Myrlie Evers-Williams and you for good according to His purpose. Now go out as she Myrlie has done and do it.
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