Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story
A moving and dramatic coming-of-age memoir of Charles Evers, one of the most colorful civil rights pioneers and brother of Medgar Evers, slain hero of the Movement. Evers led a biracial coalition which unseated an all-white Mississippi delegation at the 1968 Democratic Convention and was the first African American to run for governor of Mississippi and to be elected mayor in that state since reconstruction. His story is riveting and, working with a gifted collaborator, he has created a strong sense of time and place. Reveals new information about the Kennedys, especially Bobby who was a very close friend, and offers an up close perspective on Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders.
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Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story
A moving and dramatic coming-of-age memoir of Charles Evers, one of the most colorful civil rights pioneers and brother of Medgar Evers, slain hero of the Movement. Evers led a biracial coalition which unseated an all-white Mississippi delegation at the 1968 Democratic Convention and was the first African American to run for governor of Mississippi and to be elected mayor in that state since reconstruction. His story is riveting and, working with a gifted collaborator, he has created a strong sense of time and place. Reveals new information about the Kennedys, especially Bobby who was a very close friend, and offers an up close perspective on Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders.
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Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story

Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story

Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story

Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story

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A moving and dramatic coming-of-age memoir of Charles Evers, one of the most colorful civil rights pioneers and brother of Medgar Evers, slain hero of the Movement. Evers led a biracial coalition which unseated an all-white Mississippi delegation at the 1968 Democratic Convention and was the first African American to run for governor of Mississippi and to be elected mayor in that state since reconstruction. His story is riveting and, working with a gifted collaborator, he has created a strong sense of time and place. Reveals new information about the Kennedys, especially Bobby who was a very close friend, and offers an up close perspective on Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781620456934
Publisher: TURNER PUB CO
Publication date: 04/22/1998
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 362
Product dimensions: 2.10(w) x 3.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

CHARLES EVERS lives in Fayette, Mississippi, where he served as mayor for twenty-five years. ANDREW SZANTON is a former oral historian at the Smithsonian Institution. His first book was Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

My Pact with Medgar.
Mama, Daddy, and Old Mark Thomas.
The Wall of Separation.
Whites Messed with Us, But We Couldn't Mess with Them.
Felicia.
Wheeling and Dealing at Alcorn.
Crossing the Line.
The Pure of Heart: Medgar Joins the NAACP Full-Time.
Terrible Years.
Chicago: The Chances I Took.
I Trusted to God and My .45 Pistol.
Turn Me Loose.
You Won't Die in Vain, Medgar.
Taking Over the Mississippi NAACP.
Two Lost Brothers.
Hate Goes on Trial.
Interrupting the Green.
The Next Step up the Ladder.
Lyndon Johnson Said, "We Shall Overcome." Black Power.
Losing Martin, Losing Bobby.
Running for Congress: Evers for Everybody.
Call Me "The Mayor." Fayette Was Our Israel.
A Black-Skinned Man Running for Governor.
Scolding Richard Nixon about Watergate.
Why I Became a Republican.
The Bridge That Carried Us Across.
Have No Fear.
Selected Bibliography.
Index.
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