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Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story Book

Brother of Medgar Evers, who was murdered in 1963 in Jackson, Miss., for his civil rights activities, Charles Evers was also an activist in his own right. He succeeded his brother as head of the Mississippi NAACP, and became the first black mayor in Mississippi since Reconstruction. But he was also a complicated, quixotic figure, a man historian David Levering Lewis calls a "holy sinner of the civil rights era." Charles Evers helped finance Medgar Evers's work with profits made running numbers in Chicago and at various times in his life, as he chronicles in this book, made money bootlegging liquor and arranging call girls. Nonetheless, it is moving when Evers calls for an end to hate.Read More

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    "Have No Fear reminds us what it meant to live under a system where segregation was important enough to kill for and where being treated with dignity and respect was a whites-only entitlement." —The New York Times Book Review

    "A gutsy, American patriot and treasure . . . an important slice of American history."—Dan Rather

    "Charles Evers has given us one of the most extraordinary memoirs about race in America that I know. This holy sinner of the civil rights era, who kept company with mobsters, bootleggers, call girls, Kings, Kennedys, and Rockefellers has produced, with Andrew Szanton, a salient one-man's history of Mississippi and the United States before and after Brown v. Board of Education. The fascinating interplay of racial nihilism and political sagacity is reminiscent of the early Malcolm X and the mature Frederick Douglass." —David Levering Lewis

    "Truly spellbinding . . . relives the fear, desperation, and confrontation that marked the civil rights struggle." —The seattle times

  • 0471296945
  • 9780471296942
  • Charles Evers, Andrew Szanton
  • 20 May 1998
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 341
  • New edition
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