Video: 'Senator Ed Brooke Campaign Documentary 1966'

(Tuesday, November 8, 1966, polls closed at 8:00 p.m. EST; during the 1966 United States Senate election in Massachusetts) — Edward W. Brooke today became the first African American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote after defeating former Governor Endicott Peabody with 1,213,473 votes to 744,761 in Massachusetts.