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Charles Evers, the Black Mayor of Fayette, Mississippi, begins his campaign for Governor as an independent. He tells supporters that it is time for members of both races to work together for common goals.
1971 (Jun 12)
Charles Evers, the Black Mayor of Fayette, Mississippi, began his campaign for Governor on the eighth anniversary of his brother Medgar's death. Surrounded by ten armed Black men acting as security guards, Evers returned to his hometown of Decatur, Mississippi, to campaign as an independent. Evers was the first Black to seek the governorship since Reconstruction. He told a crowd of three hundred supporters at the Newton County courthouse that it was time for members of both races to work together for common goals.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.