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Evers, (James) Charles (1922– )

US civil-rights leader and mayor. He was field director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Mississippi and mayor of Fayette, Mississippi (1969), the first black mayor to be elected in a racially mixed southern town in the 20th century.

He was born in Decatur, Mississippi. After serving in the US Army during the Korean War, he moved to Chicago where he was a successful nightclub owner, estate agent, and disc jockey. He returned to Mississippi to become NAACP field director in 1963. He published his autobiography (1971) and was re-elected mayor (1973) after an unsuccessful attempt for the governorship on an independent ticket (1971). In 1978, he failed in his bid to become a US senator.



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Yet it is an honest and nicely crafted essay that shows Charles Evers (who is still alive) was a political opportunist who eventually found his true home in the conservative Republican Party.
Reclaiming the past: local people, local and national history: a book ... by Banner Haley, Charles Pete / Afro-Americans in New York Life and History
His conversation with Charles Evers held a great history lesson for him, Olenick said.
EVERS LAUDED IN KING EVENT; EVERS' DAUGHTER AT CIVIL RIGHTS EVENT by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Charles Evers, the NAACP field secretary, made a number of fiery speeches, warning "Uncle Toms" who broke the boycott that they would "have their necks broken by their own people.
Protesting abortion: free speech or no? by Gaffney, Edward McGlynn, Jr. / Commonweal
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