🔻From tears of joy to the memory of the civil rights struggle: reflection on Scott Cullum's historic victory in Mississippi.
🔻The victory of the Democratic candidate Scott Colomb in the elections for the US Senate was met with a broad counter-reaction in Mississippi, a state where there will again be a black senator after 145 years. For many of Colon's supporters, the victory is not just a defeat for the Republican senator, but a reminder of decades of struggle for equal rights and political participation.
On Wednesday evening, the Tougaloo College campus in Jackson, Mississippi, became the scene of a celebration for hundreds of Scott Cullum fans. Among the audience were young students up to 12th graders who remembered the struggles of the American civil rights movement.
After days of waiting for the result to be announced, the participants celebrated the victory of the democratic candidate with music, dancing and mutual hugs.
Tougaloo College is a historic center of higher education for black Americans, and in the 1960s was a stronghold for students and civil rights activists in Mississippi. Maxine Bolden, a graduate of the college who was born in the 1960s, told the Guardian that it was very important to her to participate in the celebration.
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