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The News Argus
Winston-Salem State University
E-mail: newzargus@yahoo.com
May 2001
Congratulations to the Class of 2001
Photo by Melde Rutledge
Graduating
seniors had to buy
their caps and
gowns at the
WSSU bookstore.
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LIVING HISTORY
Widow of civil rights activist
Medgar Evers to speak at graduation
Courtesy of WSSU’s
Web site
Myrlie Evers-
Williams, the
widow of slain
civil rights leader Med
gar Evers, will deliver
the keynote address for
Winston-Salem State
University's 109 th
Commencement on
Saturday, May 12, at
Lawrence Joel Veterans
Memorial Coliseum at
9:45 a.m.
As leaders in the civil
rights movement in
Mississippi in the early
1960s, Evers-Williams
and her husband,
Medgar, were high pro
file targets for pro-segre
gation terrorist acts.
The risks were so
high for those involved
in voter registration dri
ves and civil rights
demonstrations that the
couple made a pact
between them never to
part from each other in
anger.
Threats against the
Evers family peaked in
1962, due largely to
Medgar's successful
EVERS-WILLIAMS
organization of a boy
cott of white downtown
merchants in Jackson,
Miss.
The Evers' home was
firebombed while he
was away at a meeting.
Evers-Williams fought
the flames with a garden
hose, all the while fear
ing she might be killed
by a sniper lurking in
the shadows outside her
home.
The premonition of
assassination they both
shared came true the
night of June 12,1963,
when Medgar was shot
and killed by a sniper in
the driveway of his
home. Despite her hus
band's murder and
threats on her own life
in the days and weeks
that followed the assas
sination, Evers-Williams
continued her husband's
crusade for racial equali
ty-
She demonstrated
even greater courage
and determination after
two all-white juries
allowed her husbcind's
killer to walk free. She
worked the next 30
years to see that justice
was done. Her notion of
justice was realized in
1994, when Byron De La
Beckwith was sentenced
to life in prison for
Evers' murder.
The Evers' home in
Jackson, Miss., was
donated to Tougaloo
College, and the street
on which it stands was
declared a national his
toric site. From the
depths of that tragedy,
Evers-Williams emerged
from being the wife of a
See EVERS,
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Class officers,
SGA elected
for 2001-02
school year
By Chrisitina Simons, Tameka R. Stafford and
Latara Patterson
Argus Reporters
GREGG
For a little more than a
week, Winston-Salem State
University's campus was
filled with an array of cre
atively designed posters and
fliers, complete with pictures
and thoughtful quotes, from
students who were running
for Student Government
Association and class officer
positions.
After a strenuous week of
wearing buttons, passing out
fliers and giving away candy,
these are the candidates stu
dents voted for in the Multi-
Purpose Room of the
Thompson Center on April 4.
The students and their
offices are:
Student Government
Association Cabinet
Carmille Akande, presi
dent; Marques Gaffney, vice
president of internal affairs;
Faith Herring, secretary of
judicial affairs; and Shonetta
Gregg, secretary of commuter
services.
HERRING
GAFFNEY
Senior Class Officers
Calvin Randall III, presi
dent; Bridgett Terry, vice
president; Brandie Fleming,
class representative; and
Kenita Upchurch and Christy
Nixon, class queens.
Junior Class Officers
Rolanda Patrick, president;
Rosalyn Brown, vice presi
dent; Deidre Boyd, treasurer; and Brandie Fleming,
class representative
Sophomore Class Officers
Kia Hood, president; Daryl Williams, vice president;
Safari Jeffries, treasurer; Michelle Hager, chaplain; class
representatives, Lunday Talley and Regina White; and
Daiquari Ross, class queen.
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