Todd Jealous, the then executive director of the NAACP,13 who a month earlier had apologized to Myrlie and her family during an NAACP national board meeting in Jackson for the organization’s failure to protect him. “He put his speech aside,” Myrlie told radio host and civil rights activist Mark Thompson regarding Jealous. “And he stood there, and he said, ‘I have an apology to make.’ And he apologized to me and my daughter and other family members for what the Association leadership, top leadership, said to Medgar and the way they treated him. . . . I don’t think there was a dry eye in the
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