Myrlie Evers-Williams, a leader of the civil rights movement, has donated her archival collection to Pomona College, where she received her degree in sociology in 1968.
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given to the college."And it was my being here at Pomona with the instructors here and the other people who did not smother me. They gave me space. But they surrounded me by love, understanding and saying, ‘Yes, you can.’”Gabrielle Starr, the president of Pomona College, said school officials had been working with Evers-Williams for five years to plan the donation.
Among Evers-Williams' many accomplishments are a run for U.S. Congress, helping to launch the National Women’s Political Caucus, serving as chair of the NAACP and becoming the first woman and layperson to give the invocation at a presidential inauguration, which she did for President Obama's second inauguration in 2013.
According to the college, the newly donated collection includes personal items, including buttons and photos from her run for Congress; photos of her with presidents ranging from Kennedy to Carter to Clinton; correspondence related to her preparation from the Obama inauguration; her Pomona College ID card and more.
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