Black mayor of Mississippi town brings 'atomic bomb of change'

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James Young poses with one of his young supporters after winning this week's election.

Ed Lavandera

CNN Correspondent

James Young still remembers the Ku Klux Klan tormenting his neighborhood. He can still see his father holding a gun on the living room couch ready to shoot anyone who threatened his family.

Nothing about Young’s childhood ever made him think he could be the mayor of Philadelphia, Mississippi, the town best known for the killings of three civil rights

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