MISSISSIPPI POLITICO, CIVIL RIGHTS FIGURE Charles Evers DIES

Charles Evers, the more established sibling of killed social equality pioneer Medgar Evers and a long-term figure in Mississippi legislative issues, has passed on in Mississippi. He was 97.

A coroner says Evers passed on of "common causes" Wednesday in Brandon.

Medgar Evers was a Mississippi NAACP pioneer who was killed outside his Jackson home in 1963.

Charles Evers in 1969 turned into the principal Black competitor since Reconstruction to win a city hall leader's race in any multiracial town in Mississippi. He ran fruitlessly for senator in 1971 and for U.S. Senate in 1978, the multiple times as an autonomous.