Mississippi politico, civil rights figure Charles Evers dies
FILE - Charles Evers watches as people mill around the front yard of the Jackson, Miss., home of his brother, the late civil rights leader Medgar Evers, after the National Park Service unveiled a bronze plaque, center, showing the Jackson, Miss., home as a national historic landmark, May 24, 2018. Evers, a longtime figure in Mississippi politics, died Wednesday, July 22, 2020. He was 97. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

FILE - Charles Evers watches as people mill around the front yard of the Jackson, Miss., home of his brother, the late civil rights leader Medgar Evers, after the National Park Service unveiled a bronze plaque, center, showing the Jackson, Miss., home as a national historic landmark, May 24, 2018. Evers, a longtime figure in Mississippi politics, died Wednesday, July 22, 2020. He was 97. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Jul. 22, 2020 06:07 PM EDT
FILE - Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, attends the funeral for blues legend B.B. King at Bell Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Indianola, Miss., May 30, 2015. Evers, a longtime figure in Mississippi politics, died Wednesday, July 22, 2020. He was 97. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool, File)

FILE - Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, attends the funeral for blues legend B.B. King at Bell Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Indianola, Miss., May 30, 2015. Evers, a longtime figure in Mississippi politics, died Wednesday, July 22, 2020. He was 97. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool, File)

Jul. 22, 2020 06:08 PM EDT
FILE - Charles Evers watches as people mill around the front yard of the Jackson, Miss., home of his brother, the late civil rights leader Medgar Evers, after the National Park Service unveiled a bronze plaque, center, showing the Jackson, Miss., home as a national historic landmark, May 24, 2018. Evers, a longtime figure in Mississippi politics, died Wednesday, July 22, 2020. He was 97. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

FILE - Charles Evers watches as people mill around the front yard of the Jackson, Miss., home of his brother, the late civil rights leader Medgar Evers, after the National Park Service unveiled a bronze plaque, center, showing the Jackson, Miss., home as a national historic landmark, May 24, 2018. Evers, a longtime figure in Mississippi politics, died Wednesday, July 22, 2020. He was 97. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Jul. 22, 2020 06:08 PM EDT