Across the South, Black women voters helped usher in a slew of new Democratic officeholders this year in addition to Mississippi Sen.-elect Scott Colom. They powered Keisha Lance Bottoms to a history-making win as Georgia’s first Black governor alongside a slate of Black women who will hold key state offices. They also backed successful Democratic candidates in GOP strongholds, including South Carolina and Texas, by lopsided margins.
Jacqueline Amos remembers being on the phone with her father years ago navigating the backroads of Mississippi in an effort to register voters when she drove past a Ku Klux Klan rally.
As she watched provisional ballots get counted in Hinds County on Wednesday, with Democrat Scott Colom on the precipice of making history, Amos wished her father were alive to see it.
