Charles Evers was a pioneering American civil rights activist, businessman, and politician from Mississippi. After the assassination of his brother, Medgar Evers, in 1963, he took over his position as field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. Evers became the first African American mayor of a biracial Mississippi town in the post-Reconstruction era when he was elected mayor of Fayette in 1969. A complex and sometimes controversial figure, he later became a notable supporter of several Republican candidates.