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    James Charles Evers (September 11, 1922 – July 22, 2020) was an American civil rights activist, businessman, radio personality, and politician. Evers was...
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    1963 Evers was awarded the NAACP Spingarn Medal. Evers was murdered in 1963 at his home in Jackson, Mississippi, now the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home...
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    to 1970, Evers was the director of planning at the center for Educational Opportunity for the Claremont Colleges. From 1973 to 1975, Evers was the vice-president...
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  • (born 1978), New Zealand rower Charles Evers (1922–2020), US civil rights activist, brother of Medgar Evers Christopher Evers (1564–1590), English Catholic...
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  • tried twice in the 1960s and both trials ended in hung juries. Evers' widow Myrlie Evers had been trying to bring De La Beckwith to justice for over 25...
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  • saddest of possible words: "Tinker to Evers to Chance." Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds, Tinker and Evers and Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our...
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    The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, also known as Medgar Evers House, is a historic house museum at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive...
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    Television portal Jason Evers at IMDb Jason Evers at the Internet Broadway Database (as Herbert Evers) Jason Evers at Memory Alpha Jason Evers at Find A Grave...
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    basketball player Arthur Chaney in Disney's Air Bud and Medgar Evers's older brother Charles Evers in Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi. He had a role in the...
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    supporters was former senatorial candidate Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Senate Republicans failed to overcome a filibuster...
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    Waller's victory, Evers drove across town to a local TV station to congratulate him. A reporter later wrote that Waller's aides learned Evers was in the building...
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    times with Charles X, Charles XI, Charles XII, Charles XIII, Charles XIV and Charles XV. Charles I of England (1600–1649) is followed by Charles II of England...
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    Evers to the Braves in 1914; that season, Evers led the Braves to victory in the World Series, and was named the league's Most Valuable Player. Evers...
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  • entrepreneur and surgeon. He was a mentor to activists such as Medgar Evers, Charles Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, and Jesse Jackson, whose...
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    in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France. After Charles I's execution...
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    place, and speaking to the crowds. Reading the Sermon on the Mount: by Charles H. Talbert 2004 ISBN 1-57003-553-9 pp. 21–26. What are they saying about...
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    R.G. Allen, 386 votes –225 votes. Evers was an activist and the brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, head of the Mississippi chapter of...
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    and assisted Charles Evers' NAACP chapter with a successful campaign in Natchez. Charles had taken the lead after his brother Medgar Evers was assassinated...
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  • the form of James Charles Evers, former mayor of Fayette and disc jockey in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and the brother of Medgar Evers, who became the general...
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    producing playlets and composing tunes as a child. Evers trained as a singer at the Royal College of Music. Evers made her professional stage debut on 9 July...
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    and the Howard University School of Law. At Howard, he was mentored by Charles Hamilton Houston, who taught his students to be "social engineers" willing...
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    (Hattiesburg) Charles Evers (1922–2020), civil rights leader, mayor of Fayette (Decatur) Medgar Evers (1925–1963), civil rights leader (Decatur) Myrlie Evers-Williams...
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  • a sexual harassment lawsuit. Following the dismissal of Chavis, Myrlie Evers-Williams narrowly defeated NAACP chairperson William Gibson for president...
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  • worked with a wide range of subjects including civil rights pioneer Charles Evers, Nobel Prize winning physicist Eugene Wigner, former co-chairman of...
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    The Freedom Singers, Charles Evers, Fred Shuttlesworth, Cleveland Robinson, Randolph Blackwell, Annie Bell Robinson Devine, Charles Kenzie Steele, Alfred...
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  • Charles Evered (born November 12, 1964) is an American-born playwright, screenwriter and film director. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Evered grew up in...
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  • across the street from Evers's home. Using a rifle, he shot Evers in the back. Evers died an hour later, aged 37. Myrlie Evers, his wife, and his three...
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  • spread around campus that Charles Evers—a local politician, civil rights leader and the brother of slain activist Medgar Evers—and his wife had been killed...
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    (Democratic) Charles Evers, Mayor of Fayette (independent) Henry Jay Kirksey, civil rights activist and candidate for governor in 1975 (independent) Evers was...
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  • many black civil rights figures in 1980 by joining Ralph Abernathy and Charles Evers in endorsing Ronald Reagan. By 1984, however, he had soured on Reagan's...
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