Scott Colom makes history in Mississippi. Two other Black men did the same 150 years before him
AP reports that Democrat Scott Colom defeated Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith to become Mississippi's first Black U.S. senator in nearly 150 years, and will take office in January. The article recounts Reconstruction-era predecessors Hiram Rhodes Revels, seated in 1870, and Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first to serve a full term, and quotes civil rights figures calling the win radical and a return of voice to Black voters.
