Editing Charles Evers (section)

=== Business activities ===
During [[World War II]], Charles and Medgar Evers both served in the [[United States Army]].<ref name="biography"/> Charles fell in love with a [[Filipino people|Philippine]] woman while stationed overseas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2014/jun/11/charles-evers/|title=Charles Evers|publisher=Jacksonfreepress.com|access-date=January 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114501/http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2014/jun/11/charles-evers/|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> He could not marry her and bring her home to Mississippi because the state's constitution prohibited interracial marriages.<ref name="PBS"/>

During the war he established a brothel in [[Quezon City]] which catered to American servicemen.{{sfn|Nossiter|1994|p=177}} After serving a year of reserve duty following the [[Korean War]], he settled in [[Philadelphia, Mississippi]].<ref name=dies/> In 1949, he began working as a [[disc jockey]] at WHOC,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://blues.org/blues_kba_winner/charles-evers-wmpr-jackson-mississippi/|title=Charles Evers, WMPR, Jackson, Mississippi|website=Blues Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref> making him the first black disc jockey in the state. By the early 1950s, he was managing a hotel, cab company, and burial insurance business in the town. He had a cafe in Philadelphia and influenced over two hundred black citizens to pay their poll tax.<ref>Medgar Wiley Evers, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Manning Marable. (2005). ''The autobiography of Medgar Evers : a hero's life and legacy revealed through his writings, letters, and speeches''. New York: Basic Civitas Books. p. 24. {{ISBN|0465021778}}.</ref> Forced to leave due to local white hostility in 1956, he moved to [[Chicago]]. Low on money, he began working as a meatpacker in stockyards during the day and as an attendant for the men's restroom at the Conrad Hilton Hotel at nights. He also began pimping and ran a [[numbers game]], taking $500 a week from the latter. He gained enough money to purchase several bars, bootlegged liquor, and sold jukeboxes.{{sfn|Nossiter|1994|p=178}}