Charles Evers

Medgar Evers's older brother was a deejay, an Army veteran and then a politician. Charles Evers served in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines, rising to battalion sergeant major. He helped run boycotts in Natchez and Fayette and became the first African American on the Democratic National Committee. In 1969 he won election as mayor of Fayette, the first African American mayor of a biracial Mississippi town in more than a century, and he also served as judge and prosecutor. In 1974 he hosted the first Southern Conference of Black Mayors.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Locust — 7.8 mi
  A 1780s Natchez Trace inn and cotton farm at milepost 15.5, with an enslaved people's cemetery of 43 graves and a brick kiln behind the house.
• Emerald Mound — 12 mi
  The second-largest Mississippian ceremonial mound in the country, beside the Natchez Trace Parkway, built by ancestors of the Natchez and kept from climbing at the request of tribes.
• Alcorn State University and Oakland Memorial Chapel — 12 mi
  The 1871 Reconstruction college on the old Oakland College campus, first led by Hiram Revels, with the 1838 chapel built by Black craftsmen.
• Windsor Ruins — 16 mi
  Twenty-three standing Corinthian columns left by an 1890 fire, the largest antebellum mansion in Mississippi, built with enslaved labor on a 2,600-acre cotton plantation.

More markers nearby

• Thomas Hinds — steps away
• Old Greenville — 5.2 mi
• Salem Church, Cole's Creek — 5.8 mi
• Red Lick Presbyterian Church — 7.6 mi