Mississippi Forward
Robert Reich's essay ties the still-undecided Mississippi Senate race, where Democrat Scott Colom leads incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by nearly 2,600 votes with ballots outstanding, to the 1964 Freedom Summer murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney. Reich, whose childhood protector was Schwerner, says Colom's run itself marks a victory over that legacy of racist violence.
