Charles Evers passes away at age 97

Or down vote.- - a brother of slain civil rights- leader medgar evers and a - longtime figure in mississippi- state politics passed away- today.- charles ever died at the age of- 97 in brandon this morning.

A - coronoer says he died of natura- - - - causes.

Younger brother medgar- evers was a mississipi naacp- leader who was assassinated - outside his home in jackson in- 1963.

- charles evers became the first- black candidate to win a mayor'- race in mississippi in 1969.- later he ran for governor in- 1971- and for the u.s. senate in- 1978.

- - - - he was later a republican and - publicly supported- barack