Video: Mississippi rising: town elects first black mayor

July 3: Philadelphia, Mississippi was a town more known as the site of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. This weekend, it declares its independence from an ugly past. NBC’s Mark Potter reports. (Nightly News)

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