Charles Evers' Death

The civil rights leader Charles Evers died at the age of 97. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Civil rights activist and politician who became the first African-American mayor in the state of Mississippi since the Reconstruction era in 1969.

He was the brother of Medgar Evers. 

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I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

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So I’m in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

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I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

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I’m for prayer in schools.

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We’ve begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.