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  1. Charles Evers was the brother of Medgar Evers, a prominent NAACP leader and field director in Mississippi. He served as a mayor, ran for governor and senator, and became a radio host and a Republican.

  2. 22. Juli 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...

  3. 23. Juli 2020 · Charles Evers was appointed to lead the Mississippi NAACP after his brother was killed. In 1969, he was elected mayor of the southwestern Mississippi town of Fayette, becoming the first Black mayor of a multiracial town in the state since Reconstruction.

  4. 24. Mai 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.

  5. 23. Juli 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.

  6. 22. Juli 2020 · JACKSON, Miss. – 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.

  7. 22. Juli 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...