Charles Evers

James Charles Evers (September 11, 1922 – July 22, 2020) was an American civil rights activist.  In 1969, he became the first African American since the Reconstruction era to have been elected as mayor in a Mississippi city.

He served as mayor of Fayette in Jefferson County. Thereafter, he ran for governor in 1971 and the United States Senate in 1978. He ran both times as an Independent candidate.

Evers died on July 22, 2020 in Brandon, Mississippi at the age of 97.

References

Other websites
 The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, PBS 
 90.1 WMPR,   Jackson Mississippi, Charles Evers station manager : blues, urban contemporary gospel, talk, variety
 Oral History Interview with Charles Evers, from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library 

Category:1922 births
Category:2020 deaths
Category:American civil rights activists
Category:American mayors
Category:Politicians from Mississippi
Category:Businesspeople from Mississippi
Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians