Civil rights icon Charles Evers, the first Black elected mayor of a Mississippi city and brother of Medgar Evers, has died at the age of 97.
Evers became the first black mayor of a Mississippi town or city since reconstruction when he was elected mayor of Fayette in 1969.
Evers died Wednesday surrounded by family at his Rankin County home, according to the Rankin County coroner.
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