Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

So I’m in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else. —Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

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November 29, 2006

So I’m in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else. —Charles Evers, American civil rights leader and first post-Reconstruction mayor in Mississippi

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