Black Involvement
Mayor Charles Evers
Friday, 23 Jan 1970 at 8:00 pm – C.Y. Stephens
Charles Evers symbolizes what today's young black people can aspire to. A man of driving ambition and enormous magnetism, he has also succeeded in making extraordinary strides towards turning Mississippi around. He has launched exhaustive Negro registration drives and followup election campaigns that have resulted in the first significant breaks in Mississippi's lily-white government.Part of the National Affairs Series: Violence In America.
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