HONOR HIS LEGACY. >> THAT, THANKS TO CHARLES EVERS. HE INSPIRED BLACK MEN AND WOMEN ALL OVER AMERICA MAY NOT BE WHAT IT’S GOING TO BE, MAY NOT BE WHAT IT OUGHT TO BE, IT SURE AIN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE.

Evers, who was the brother of Medgar Evers, became a field director of the NAACP in Mississippi after his brother’s assassination. He also served as the first Black mayor in Fayette for 16 years.

The town of Fayette hosted a ceremony Feb. 28 for the unveiling of a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker honoring James Charles ...

A Mississippi Freedom maker will be unveiled Friday in Fayette to honor the life and legacy of civil rights leader James Charles Evers. Evers is the brother of slain civil rights icon Medgar Evers.