Charles Evers
Politician, Author
1922 –
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Who is Charles Evers?
James Charles Evers, the older brother of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, is a leading civil rights spokesman within the Republican Party in his native Mississippi. In 1969, he became the first African American since the Reconstruction era to have been elected as mayor in a Mississippi city, Fayette in Jefferson County. Thereafter, he ran for governor in 1971 and the United States Senate in 1978, both times as an Independent candidate.
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- Born
- Sep 11, 1922
Decatur - Also known as
- Mayor Charles Evers
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Alcorn State University
- Lived in
- Mississippi
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on July 23, 2013
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