Summary: Part A: Slain activist Medgar Evers was heavily involved in civil rights after returning from World War II and graduating from Alcorn College in 1951. He was also instrumental in the efforts to end segregation at the University of Mississippi. His widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams talks of his legacy and impact on the civil rights movement nearly 50 years after his assassination. She also discusses her continuing work for civil rights and reflects on her opportunity to give the invocation at the second inaugural ceremony of President Barack Obama. Part B: This year in 2013, our nation celebrates many historic anniversaries in the struggle for civil rights and racial harmony including the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the 1963 March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous I have a Dream Speech. Lonnie Bunch III, director of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture talks about the museum’s efforts to collect artifacts and chronicle the stories of many well-known and forgotten heroes who sacrificed to keep the dream of equality alive
