Charles Evers Quotes

Charles Evers — American Activist born on September 11, 1922,

James Charles Evers is a civil rights activist and the older brother of Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in 1963. In 1969, Charles Evers was elected in Fayette, Mississippi as the first African-American mayor in the state in the post-Reconstruction era, following passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which enforced constitutional rights for citizens. He ran for governor in 1971 and the United States Senate in 1978, both times as an Independent candidate... (wikipedia)