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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.
Jul 22, 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...
May 24, 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.
Jul 23, 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. He was 97.
Jul 23, 2020 · Charles Evers, the brother of Medgar Evers, was a NAACP leader, mayor, businessman and political independent. He died at 97 of natural causes, after a long career of challenging racial discrimination and supporting various presidents.
Jul 22, 2020 · Charles Evers was the brother of Medgar Evers, a slain NAACP leader, and the first Black mayor of a Mississippi town since Reconstruction. He ran for U.S. Senate as an independent and endorsed Ronald Reagan for president.
Medgar Evers (born July 2, 1925, Decatur, Miss., U.S.—died June 12, 1963, Jackson, Miss.) was an American black civil-rights activist, whose murder received national attention and made him a martyr to the cause of the civil rights movement. Evers served in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II.
