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James Charles Evers (September 11, 1922 – July 22, 2020) was an American civil rights activist, businessman, radio personality, and politician. Evers was known for his role in the civil rights movement along with his younger brother Medgar Evers.
22 de jul. de 2020 · Charles Evers, who gave up life as a petty racketeer to succeed his assassinated brother Medgar Evers as a Mississippi civil rights leader in 1963, becoming the state’s first Black mayor since...
23 de jul. de 2020 · JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Charles Evers, who led an eclectic life as a civil rights leader, onetime purveyor of illegal liquor in Chicago, history-making Black mayor in deeply segregated Mississippi and contrarian with connections to prominent national Democrats and Republicans, died Wednesday.
24 de mai. de 2017 · Learn about the life and achievements of Charles Evers, a civil rights activist and politician who served as the mayor of Fayette, Mississippi. Watch his interview with The HistoryMakers, where he shares his memories of his brother Medgar Evers and his involvement in the NAACP.
22 de jul. de 2020 · Charles Evers, the wayward older brother of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers who picked up his sibling’s mantle by leading black voter registration efforts in Mississippi in the 1960s...
22 de jul. de 2020 · Charles Evers was a NAACP leader, a mayor, a businessman and a political independent who crossed racial and party lines. He was the older brother of Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in 1963, and he lived to see his killer convicted in 1994.
Beginning in the 1950s, Charles Evers was a civil rights activist, a businessman, and a politician. The older brother of Medgar Evers, Charles Evers earned recognition in his own right as a disc jockey, the first African American member of the Democratic National Committee, and the first African American mayor of a biracial town in […]
