Carroll Shelby
August, 1965
When Edward Brooke ran for the office of attorney general of Massachusetts last year, he had every portent of disaster going for him. He was a Republican running in a solidly Democratic state during Lyndon Johnson's blitz. He was a Protestant in one of the most heavily Roman Catholic states in the country. He was a Negro in a state that is 98-percent white. In spite of these staggering political millstones, he romped home an easy winner and became the first Negro to hold such a high state politi...
