[CIVIL RIGHTS]. EVERS, Charles (1922-2020). A group of 3 items involving the African American mayor and civil rights leader, incl. document signed and press photographs.

Evers at the Polls. Fayette, MS, 13 May 1969. 8 1/8 x 10 in. silver gelatin photograph. Caption in negative, date stamp to verso. View of Edgars campaigning for the mayoral election. Getting into a car with a sign reading, "Don't vote for a black man. Or a white man. Just a good man. Vote Evers for Mayor May 13. Doesn't that sound good."

[With:] [Negro civil rights leader Charles Evers, pointing to a Confederate monument...]. Fayette, MS, 7 July 1969. 5 7/8 x 10 in. silver gelatin photograph. Newspaper clipping and stamp to verso. Taken shortly after Evers was elected Mayor of Fayette, making him the first African American mayor in Mississippi since the era of Reconstruction. The statue he is pointing to was erected to honor the Confederate war dead from Jefferson County, MS. In an article published in the Boston Globe on 26 October 1969, Evers is quoted: "And that Confederate statue is going to stay and it will look down upon a new day." It was at this time that Evers was attempting to raise a statue to his slain brother Medgar but was facing resistance from the white officials who still dominated county politics.

[Also with:] EVERS, Charles (1922-2020). Typed document signed in ink ("Charles Evers"). N.p., n.d. 1 page, 4to, 8 1/2 x 11 in.

Evers addresses conservatives to "look deep in your heart, and drive out all the racism locked up in there" and to liberals to "don't be superior, now. You think you know how to treat minorities, but you don't." Continuing, he addresses to whites: "blacks are the most loyal people on earth. But you got to be kind to us", and "to blacks I say, there's still too much racism in this country. Of course there is! Don't wallow in it. Don't tuck your head in fear or in shame. Never quit."

Property from a 35-Year Collection from the Southern United States

This lot is located in Cincinnati.