{"title":"Charles Evers","description":"CHARLES EVERS lives in Fayette, Mississippi, where he served as mayor for twenty-five years. ANDREW SZANTON is a former oral historian at the Smithsonian Institution. His first book was Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.","products":[{"product_id":"have-no-fear-the-charles-evers-story-paperback","title":"Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Have No Fear reminds us what it meant to live under a system where segregation was important enough to kill for and where being treated with dignity and respect was a whites-only entitlement.\" --The New York Times Book Review \u003cbr\u003e\"A gutsy, American patriot and treasure . . . an important slice of American history.\"--Dan Rather \u003cbr\u003e\"Charles Evers has given us one of the most extraordinary memoirs about race in America that I know. This holy sinner of the civil rights era, who kept company with mobsters, bootleggers, call girls, Kings, Kennedys, and Rockefellers has produced, with Andrew Szanton, a salient one-man's history of Mississippi and the United States before and after Brown v. Board of Education. The fascinating interplay of racial nihilism and political sagacity is reminiscent of the early Malcolm X and the mature Frederick Douglass.\" --David Levering Lewis \u003cbr\u003e\"Truly spellbinding . . . relives the fear, desperation, and confrontation that marked the civil rights struggle.\" --The seattle times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHave No Fear reminds us what it meant to live under a system where segregation was important enough to kill for and where being treated with dignity and respect was a whites-only entitlement.\"\" --The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\"A gutsy, American patriot and treasure . . . an important slice of American history.\"\"--Dan Rather\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\"Charles Evers has given us one of the most extraordinary memoirs about race in America that I know. This holy sinner of the civil rights era, who kept company with mobsters, bootleggers, call girls, Kings, Kennedys, and Rockefellers has produced, with Andrew Szanton, a salient one-man's history of Mississippi and the United States before and after Brown v. Board of Education. The fascinating interplay of racial nihilism and political sagacity is reminiscent of the early Malcolm X and the mature Frederick Douglass.\"\" --David Levering Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\"Truly spellbinding . . . relives the fear, desperation, and confrontation that marked the civil rights struggle.\"\" --The seattle times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67946349494495,"sku":"9781620456934","price":23.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/j7hXb4nhvA9781620456934.webp?v=1791514365"},{"product_id":"have-no-fear-the-charles-evers-story-hardcover","title":"Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe brother of slain civil rights hero Medgar Evers tells his story, including how he led a biracial coalition that unseated an all-white Mississippi delegation at the 1968 Democratic Convention and how he became the first African American to be elected governor of Mississippi since Reconstruction. of photos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHave No Fear reminds us what it meant to live under a system where segregation was important enough to kill for and where being treated with dignity and respect was a whites-only entitlement.\"\" --The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\"A gutsy, American patriot and treasure . . . an important slice of American history.\"\"--Dan Rather\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\"Charles Evers has given us one of the most extraordinary memoirs about race in America that I know. 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The fascinating interplay of racial nihilism and political sagacity is reminiscent of the early Malcolm X and the mature Frederick Douglass.\"\" --David Levering Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\"Truly spellbinding . . . relives the fear, desperation, and confrontation that marked the civil rights struggle.\"\" --The seattle times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67946642702559,"sku":"9781630260941","price":36.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/aBMJsJJ9PN9781630260941.webp?v=1791521539"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/charles-evers.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}