The HistoryMakers video oral history with Charles Evers.

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 14 min., 10 sec.)) : sound, color.

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Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

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Civil rights activist and former mayor Charles Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. He received his B.S. degree from Alcorn State University in Lorman, Mississippi in 1951. Prior to receiving his degree, Evers enlisted in the United States Army and served overseas in World War II. After his return, he was the first African American disc jockey at WHOC Radio station in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and became active in the Mississippi Branch of the NAACP in 1948. Evers moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1956, but moved back to Mississippi after the assassination of his brother, Medgar Evers, becoming the field director for the Mississippi Branch of the NAACP. Evers was elected mayor of Fayette, Mississippi in 1969, the first African American mayor to be elected in Mississippi during the post-Reconstruction era. Evers became the station manager of WMPR 90.1FM in Jackson, Mississippi in 1989.

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February 04, 2021

Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

Denise Gines, interviewer.