The year was 1971, six years after the 1965 Voting Rights Act was signed into law, and Charles Evers, the first black man elected mayor in the state since Reconstruction, became the first African American to run for statewide office in Mississippi since Reconstruction. Evers, then mayor of Fayette and brother of slain civil rights… Read More »
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