Word: medgar
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...rolls. In eleven counties, blacks hold voting majorities, and overall they now amount to 28% of the registered electorate. If all blacks of voting age were registered, they would make up 33% of the registered voters in the state. With Charles Evers, brother of slain Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers, spearheading an independent ticket in the race for Governor, Mississippi blacks decided to challenge the white majority by offering 284 candidates for posts ranging from the state legislature to the school board to the sheriff's office. Black leaders believed that the concerted campaign would be the turning point...
...Myrlie B. Evers, 37, .the widow of murdered Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers, is a Democrat who is "basically a peace candidate" for Congresswoman in California. Picked by local Democratic leaders to be a sacrifice candidate in a heavily Republican district, she ran well in an interim election held earlier this year to fill the seat of the deceased incumbent and is now in the November race to win, even though she is given small chance of succeeding. "I found people genuinely frightened." she says. "They didn't know what to expect from a woman, and especially from...
...including Republican Senator Charles Percy and Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, flew in for the funeral of one of the shooting victims, James Earl Green, 17. They heard Fayette Mayor Charles Evers deliver a eulogy in the same hall in which services had been held for his slain brother Medgar. Asked Evers: "How long, O Lord, will our white brothers continue to kill...