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"I want to go to Washington to fight for more jobs, better schools, more federal money for all our people," pledged Charles Evers, as he stumped his Mississippi district seeking its congressional seat. Carrying his fight to the people via TV, the brother of murdered Medgar Evers insisted: "I want...
The winner, a protégé of John Bell Williams, who switched his Washington seat for the Governor's mansion, was conservative Charles Griffin, 41, and he carefully avoided the race issue. Avoiding the campaign as well, Griffin stayed home with a case of diplomatic flu while Evers...
Charles Evers, 45, has already come quite far since he took over as field secretary of Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. in 1963, when his brother was cut down by a sniper. Last week, in a special election conducted to fill the congressional seat that was vacated by racist Governor John...
Although Evers led all of his opponents and would like to become his state's first Negro in Congress since Reconstruction, the twelve-county Third District in southwest Mississippi is roughly 55% white; registered Negro voters, moreover, are outnumbered by about 125,000 to 70,000 at the polls...
Evers knows he must gain substantial white support and promises: "We're going to represent all of our people, black and white, 'cause we're all God's children." But the prospect is that whites, who scattered their votes in last week's election, will...