The Resume

(March 17, 1933- )
Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi
Birth name was Myrlie Beasley
Wife of civil rights activist Medgar Evers
Founding member of the National Women's Political Caucus (1971)
Chair of the NAACP (1995-98)
Wrote 'For Us, The Living' (1967) and 'Watch Me Fly' (1999)

Why she might be annoying:

She dropped out of college to marry Medgar Evers.
She ran twice for Congress from California's 2nd district and lost.
After the New Yorker ran a cartoon depicting a turban-clad Barack Obama giving a fist bump to a gun-toting Michelle (intended as a satire of the Obamas' critics), she said 'I realize there's more than one way to lynch somebody.'

Why she might not be annoying:

She was widowed twice - when Medgar Evers was murdered (1963) and when Walter Williams died from prostate cancer (1995).
Her long campaign to bring Medgar's killer to justice came to fruition when Byron de la Beckwith was finally convicted (1994).
After Evers' death she went back to school and earned a degree in sociology.
As a director of consumer affairs at ARCO, she developed the first corporate booklet for women in non-traditional jobs.
She was credited with restoring the NAACP's finances.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• BET's Humanitarian Achievement Award (Ranked: 2014)
• Born on St. Patrick's Day [March 17th] (Ranked: 1933)
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 18]
• Civil Rights Activists
• College Drop Outs
• Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
• Ebony Magazine's 100 Most Fascinating Black Women of the 20th Century [March 1999]
• Hyphenated Names
• I Married in 1976
• I Outlived My Child
• I Sought Political Office
• Look at Me, I'm on the Cover of Life
• Look at My Magazine Cover
• My Spouse Was Murdered
• Profiles 25001-25250 (Ranked: 25106)
• Spingarn Medal Winners (Ranked: 1998)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 59 Votes: 57.63% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 27.27% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 63.16% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 24 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 104 Votes: 63.46% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 146 Votes: 72.60% Annoying