caption relations birth_place birth_date image article_title birth_name occupation
evers in october 2009 medgar evers myrlie evers-williams decatur , newton county mississippi , united states 11 september 1922 charles evers.jpg charles evers
 james charles evers civil rights activist
charles evers

james charles evers -lrb- born september 11 , 1922 -rrb- is the older brother of slain civil rights activist medgar evers .
in 1969 , he became the first african american since the reconstruction era to have been elected as mayor in a mississippi city , fayette in jefferson county .
thereafter , he ran for governor in 1971 and the united states senate in 1978 , both times as an independent candidate .
