the Evers brothers
/ði ˈevəz brʌðəz/
/ði ˈevərz brʌðərz/
- two African American brothers who led the US civil rights movement in the state of Mississippi. Medgar Evers (1925-63) was the first Mississippi Field Secretary for the NAACP and was murdered in 1963. It took 31 years before the person who killed him was sent to prison. Charles Evers took his brother's NAACP job and then in 1969 became the first African American mayor of Fayette, Mississippi. He published his autobiography (= the story of his own life), Have No Fear, in 1997.
埃弗斯兄弟（Evers brothers）：在密西西比州领导美国民权运动的两个非洲裔美国兄弟。梅德加·埃弗斯（Medgar Evers，1925-63年）是NAACP的首位密西西比州外勤秘书，于1963年被谋杀。杀死他的人被关押了31年。查尔斯·埃弗斯（Charles Evers）接任他哥哥的NAACP职位，然后在1969年成为密西西比州费耶特（Fayette）的第一位非洲裔美国市长。他于1997年出版了他的自传，《没有恐惧》。