| Relatives of Slain Freedom Summer Activists Celebrate Scott Colom's Historic Senate Win in Mississippi Democrat Scott Colom has defeated incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith to become Mississippi's first African American senator since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. The electoral breakthrough is particularly meaningful given Mississippi's history in the civil rights movement. In 1964, three civil rights activists -- James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman -- were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan after traveling to the state to register Black voters. We speak with two of their relatives about Colom's stunning upset. |
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