Evers, [James] Charles
Born: 1922 AD
Currently alive, at 86 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
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Currently alive, at 86 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
US black civil rights activist and Democratic politician
Mississippi field director of NAACP 1963-1969
helped avert student riot at Jackson State College 1964
co-led biracial Loyal Democrat coalition that unseated all-white Mississippi delegation to 1968 Democratic National Convention
mayor of Fayette, Mississippi 1969-1989 (1st black mayor of any integrated town in South since Reconstruction)
1st black candidate for Mississippi governor 1971
brother of Medgar Evers
brother-in-law of Myrlie Evers-Williams 1951
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