charles evers interview links-resources

“Dedicated to everyone who
believes in peace, love, and
non-violence, let’s keep the
torch burning.”
inscription on the plaque of the statue
of Medgar Evers at The Jackson Library.

Additional Information

*Myrlie Evers, helped Medgar & Charles
open the NAACP field office in
Jackson, was the first woman to chair the
NAACP, and recently organized an
NAACP delegation which went to France to
help ease racial tensions in the
African immigrant population, and
testified several weeks ago before the
joint US House Constitution, Civil Rights
and Civil Liberties Subcommittee for the
Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime
Act which establishes a division within
the Justice Dept. to focus on
investigating and prosecuting unsolved
murders that were racially motivated from
the civil rights era. Funding was
provided for the Justice Dept and for
state and local enforcement agencies for
situations in which it wasn’t practical
for federal prosecution

** Medgar also investigated the murders
of Reverend George Lee who
preached voter registration, and Mack
Parker who was accusing of raping a white
woman and was taken from jail by a mob
and beaten and shot three days before
trial was to begin. ???Gus Courts, Lamar
Smith who worked on voter
registration

***In his Chicago days, Charles Evers
owned a blues club Club Mississippi . I
had some great musicians there including
Elmore James who was my houseband
and Jimmy Reed. I’d go get him on the
West Side and he would be drunk as a
puissant, I’d say come on Elmore we’ve
got to go. I’d take him to my club over
on 73rd and Vincennes,” he recalled.

****’Have No Fear’ from ‘Have No Fear’ by
Evers and Andrew Szanton

*****the school integration case in
Supreme Court decision was announced on
June 28, 2007. The cases were Parents
Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle
School District No. 1; Crystal Meredith,
Custodial Parent and Next Friend
of Joshua Ryan McDonald v. Jefferson
County Board of Education.

Links & Resources

Charles Evers program ‘Let’s Talk’ can
be heard online on Wednesday nights 8:00
p.m.C.D.T. http://www.wmpr901.
com/wmpr_info.php

Recommended Reading/Viewing/Myrlie Evers
& Manning Marable on C-span Book Tv,
http://www.booktv.org/publiclives/index.
asp?schedid=364&segid=5944

Charles Evers & Andrew Szanton ‘Have No
Fear’

Myrlie Evers Williams & William Peters
‘For the Living’
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-
writers/dir/evers_medgar/

‘Autobiography of Medgar Evers, A Hero’s
Life and Legacy Revealed, edited by
Myrlie Evers Williams & Manning Marable

'Never Too Late, A Prosecutor’s Story of
Justice in the Medgar Evers Case’ by
Bobby DeLaughter

Medgar Evers Home Museum, 601-977-7710
2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive
Jackson, MS

MS State Dept. of Archives & History
http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/

For the Evers Papers, donated by Myrlie
Evers Williams, and includes text from
his speeches,NAACP Reports, news
clippings, photos and posters. 601-576-
6850

Medgar Evers College as part of the City
University of New York
http://www.mec.
cunyedu/presidents_office/mwe/medgar_evers .asp

Southern Poverty Law Center-Civil Rights
Memorial http://www.splcenter.
org/crm/memorial.jsp

http://www.splcenter.
org/legal/landmark/challenge.jsp

http://www.abcnews.go.
com/Politics/wireStory?id=3271284
Myrlie HR 923

Civil Rights Museum in Mississippi
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-
06-20-miss-civilrights_N.htm

David Koppel is a freelance writer who
has written about blues artists Howlin’
Wolf, Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, Koko Taylor
and Sun Records producer Sam
Phillips. His articles have appeared in
The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-
Times, Boston Globe, and the late Chicago
Daily News, one of which was syndicated
by the New York Times Syndicate. He is a
paralegal and artist manager.

Thanks to Wanda Evers, Lynn Van Matre &
Tom Popson, Rick Kogan,
redstateupdate.net and Len Rubin.