biography
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Evers, (James) Charles
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| lived:
| (1922– )
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| biography:
| Civil-rights leader and mayor, born in Decatur, Mississippi, USA. After serving in the US Army during the Korean conflict, he took over his family's considerable business interests in Philadelphia (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 took over his 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, MS (1969), the first black mayor elected in a racially mixed Southern town since the Reconstruction. He was re-elected mayor (1973) after an unsuccessful attempt for the governorship on an independent ticket (1971). In 1978 he failed in his bid to become a US senator. His autobiography appeared in 1971. |
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