Mississippi Elects First Black Senator in More Than 140 Years

For the closing ad of his US Senate campaign, Democrat Scott Colom stood in the driveway of the house that once belonged to Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who was assassinated by a white supremacist in 1963 while holding T-shirts that said “Jim Crow Must Go.” “He was killed for helping Missis

NBC News didn’t include a summary, so this is Mother Jones’s, from its report on the same story.³