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In 1997, Charles Evers published a memoir 'Have No Fear', written with assistance from Andrew Szanton. |
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<b>Charles Evers</b> has been an important civil rights figure. When his brother Medgar was murdered in Mississippi in 1963, Charles took over the NAACP in Mississippi, and risked his life every day while signing up thousands of Black voters. |
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In 1969, Charles Evers was elected mayor of Fayette, Mississippi and became the first Black mayor in Mississippi since Reconstruction. |
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He was an advisor to politicians as diverse as Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, George Wallace and Ronald Reagan. |
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He has been an entrepreneur as well, and -- unlike many in the civil rights movement -- a pioneer in linking Black political progress to Black economic progress. |
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Revision as of 03:17, 6 December 2001
Charles Evers has been an important civil rights leader in Mississippi.
Evers is nearly a lifelong resident of the deep South state of Mississippi, whose racial mores are probably the most conservative in the nation, and whose lynchings and other violence toward Black people is notorious.
Evers has fearlessly spoken out against racism and racial violence all his life. But Evers has always seen the good in the White people of Mississippi. He has never wanted to live elsewhere.
Older brother of the civil rights martyr, Medgar Evers, he introduced Medgar to the civil rights movement. When an assassin shot and killed Medgar in 1963, Charles Evers took over Medgar's post as head of the NAACP in Mississippi. Over the next 5 years, he repeatedly risked his life to sign up thousands of new Black voters.
In 1969, Charles Evers was elected the first Black mayor in Mississippi since Reconstruction, when Fayette, Mississippi elected him its mayor.
He later ran for Governor of Mississippi, paving the way for other Black politicians to seek statewide office
He has also served as an informal advisor to a diverse collection of politicians, many of whom have had little use for each other. These include Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, George Wallace and Ronald Reagan.
In 1997, Charles Evers published a memoir 'Have No Fear', written with assistance from Andrew Szanton.
The following was added to Evers, Charles (which was redirected to this page) and needs to be integrated with the foregoing.
Charles Evers has been an important civil rights figure. When his brother Medgar was murdered in Mississippi in 1963, Charles took over the NAACP in Mississippi, and risked his life every day while signing up thousands of Black voters.
In 1969, Charles Evers was elected mayor of Fayette, Mississippi and became the first Black mayor in Mississippi since Reconstruction.
He was an advisor to politicians as diverse as Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, George Wallace and Ronald Reagan.
He has been an entrepreneur as well, and -- unlike many in the civil rights movement -- a pioneer in linking Black political progress to Black economic progress.