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Evers, Charles
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Evers, (James) Charles (1922–  ) civil rights leader, mayor; born in Decatur, Miss. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict, he took over his family's considerable business interests in Philadelphia, Miss. (mid-1950s) and then moved to Chicago (1957) where he was a successful nightclub owner, real estate agent, and disc jockey. He returned to Mississippi after the assassination of his brother Medgar Evers (1963) and assumed Medgar's post as field director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Mississippi. He was elected mayor of the town of Fayette, Miss. (1969)—the first black mayor elected in a racially mixed southern town since the Reconstruction—and published his autobiography (1971). He was reelected mayor (1973) after an unsuccessful attempt for the governorship on an independent ticket (1971). In 1978 he failed in his bid to become a U.S. senator.
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The force that truly propelled black entrepreneurship for ward in the 1970s and 1980s, however, was the activism of mayors such as Atlanta's Maynard Jackson; New Orleans' Ernest "Dutch" Morial; Detroit's Coleman Young; and Fayette, Mississippi's, Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers and BE'S first cover subject.
Then & now: BE's coverage over the last four decades reveals how far ... by Dingle, Derek T. / Black Enterprise
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
He is also supported by Charles Evers, the brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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