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Scope and Contents From the Series: The bulk of the files Berry generated as the press secretary to Charles Evers mainly relate to the gubernatorial campaign in 1971. The papers document through essays, collected campaign ephemera, photographs, news clippings, and reports the history of the post-civil rights era in Mississippi and the power and opinion garnered by Charles Evers, the first African American elected to office since reconstruction (1867-1877). The materials also document the voting process in Mississippi. There is...