What is Charles Evers?
{{Infobox person |birth_name=James Charles Evers |image = Charles Evers.jpg |caption = Evers in October 2009 |birth_date={{birth date|1922|9|11}} |birth_place=[[Decatur, Mississippi|Decatur]], [[Mississippi]], U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|2020|7|22|1922|9|11}} |death_place=[[Brandon, Mississippi|Brandon]], Mississippi, U.S. |resting_place= |occupation=[[Civil rights]] activist<br> Mayor of [[Fayette, Mississippi|Fayette]], Mississippi |religion= |relations=[[Medgar Evers]]<br>[[Myrlie Evers-Williams]] |alma_mater= |residence= |footnotes= }} '''James Charles Evers''' (September 11, 1922 &ndash; July 22, 2020) was an [[Americans|American]] civil rights activist. In 1969, he became the first African American since the [[Reconstruction era in the United States|Reconstruction era]] to have been elected as [[mayor]] in a Mississippi city. He served as mayor of [[Fayette, Mississippi|Fayette]] in [[Jefferson County, Mississippi|Jefferson County]]. Thereafter, he ran for [[Governor of Mississippi|governor]] in 1971 and the [[United States Senate]] in 1978. He ran both times as an [[Independent (politician)|Independent]] candidate. Evers died on July 22, 2020 in [[Brandon, Mississippi]] at the age of 97.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://yallpolitics.com/2020/07/22/civil-rights-leader-and-political-figure-charles-evers-passes-away-at-97/ |title=Civil rights leader and political figure Charles Evers passes away at 97 |access-date=2020-07-23 |archive-date=2020-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723195149/https://yallpolitics.com/2020/07/22/civil-rights-leader-and-political-figure-charles-evers-passes-away-at-97/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * ''The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow'', PBS [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_evers.html] * 90.1 WMPR, [http://www.wmpr901.com/c_evers.php] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070722182147/http://www.wmpr901.com/c_evers.php |date=2007-07-22 }} Jackson Mississippi, Charles Evers station manager : [