Mayor Evers & His Adminsitration At Town Hall

Portrait of Fayette Mayor Charles Evers, flanked by members of his administration, from left, Alderman Will Turner, Howard Chamblis, Isiah Anderson, and Fred Allen, as they stand outside City Hall, Fayette, Mississippi, 7/26/1969. Earlier that month, on July 7, Evers had been inaugurated, becoming the first Black mayor of a biracial Mississippi town since the Reconstruction era.