Evers, Charles, 1922-2020

found: NUCMC data from Amistad Research Center for Berry, J. Papers, 1966-1987(Charles Evers, subject of book Amazing grace, with Charles Evers in Mississippi)

found: English Wikipedia website, viewed July 22, 2013(James Charles Evers (born Sept. 11, 1922), the older brother of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, is a civil rights spokesman within the Republican Party in his native Mississippi. 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 U.S. Senate in 1978, both times as an Independent candidate)

found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(James Charles Evers; mayor, civil rights activist; born 11 September 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi, United States; in 1940 enlisted in the U.S. Army and served during World War II; took advantage of the GI Bill to go to college, first completing high school at Alcorn State University in Claiborne County, Mississippi; joined the NAACP (1948); BS in Social Studies from Alcorn (1951); the first African American ever appointed to the executive committee of the Democratic Party; elected mayor of Fayette (1969); selected as a Mississippi delegate and worked as a committee man during the 1972 Democratic National Convention; in 1989 Evers lost the mayoral race and joined the Republican Party, acting to recruit a number of African Americans to the party; after leaving politics he worked as manager of his own radio station, WMPR, in Jackson)

found: Washington Post, viewed July 22, 2020(Charles Evers ; died July 22 in Brandon, Miss) - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-evers-brother-of-slain-civil-rights-activist-dies-at-97/2020/07/22/09bf3d40-52c3-11e8-9c91-7dab596e8252_story.html