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WHILE Berry isolates a number of the hurdles black politicians will have to overcome, he also provides an incisive analysis of Evers. A seemingly warm and open man, Evers, in fact, trusts almost no one. He is a domineering man who demands complete loyalty from his staff. At least twice...
In addition to being a demanding man, Evers seems coldly materialistic at times. He often told members of his staff that they should not confirm any out of state speaking engagements for him unless he had full payment in advance.
Despite all of his cold dispassion, Evers is a tremendously charismatic speaker. Berry documents the tremendous empathy Evers communicated to poor black audiences and how, through emotional speeches about his brother Medgar and the Kennedy's, he was able to inspire these impoverished farmers and laborers.
It is also clear from Berry's account that Evers felt it was a significant achievement for a black man to be able to run a full-scale campaign for governor of Mississippi without being shot down. One senses from the book that blacks across the state got great psychic...
Already Evers is talking about running for governor again in 1975. Given the fact that black population in Mississippi is declining yearly, the smartest thing Evers can do is abandon any hope of winning and concentrate on developing strong local organizations, many of which have floundered since his last campaign...