Former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" id="mwARg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Brooke" id="mwARk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edward Brooke">Edward Brooke</a> becomes the first <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" id="mwARo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="African American">African American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_United_States_Senate_election_in_Massachusetts" id="mwARs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1966 United States Senate election in Massachusetts">elected</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" id="mwARw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> since <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Era" id="mwAR0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Reconstruction Era">Reconstruction</a>.