Early Life and Education
Born in Decatur in Newton County in east central Mississippi, Evers was reared by devoutly Christian parents.
During World War II, Charles and Medgar Evers both served in the United States Army. Charles fell in love with a Filipino woman overseas. He could not marry her and go to his native Mississippi because of her "white" skin color. Mississippi had enshrined Jim Crow rules in its constitution, which prohibited interracial marriages.
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