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A history-making Black governor can’t believe Mississippi’s Senate election

L. Douglas Wilder, the first African American elected governor of any state since Reconstruction, is shocked to see Mississippi on the verge of electing a Black senator

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A history-making Black governor can’t believe Mississippi’s Senate election

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