In case you haven't heard, James Young is the first African American mayor of Philadelphia, Mississippi. In case you think you never heard of Philadelphia, Mississippi, it has a population of 8,000 and is best known for its notorious past. On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers -- James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Mississippi; Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24, both activists from New York -- were shot to death at the edge of town. The killings inspired the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning."
Mayor-elect Young spoke about his victory "When you've been treated the way we've been treated ... it's so overwhelming". Despite a 55 percent white majority, Young defeated Rayburn Waddell, a white, three-term incumbent, by the slim margin of 46 votes.
Read more about this history making event at http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/22/mississippi.black.mayor/index.html
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