Mississippi, once the epicenter of Jim Crow, elects its first Black senator since Reconstruction
A Mother Jones article reports that Democrat Scott Colom, Mississippi's longtime district attorney, won a US Senate seat as the state's first Black senator since Reconstruction and the first Black statewide winner since then, in a race driven by a new fight over voting rights after the Louisiana v. Callais decision. The NAACP's organizing and record Black turnout helped power the upset, though Republican Secretary of State Michael Watson purged 1 in 9 voters using faulty credit data.
