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Blocked from the Bench Then, Elected by the People Now
Scott Colom — blocked by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith from a federal judgeship — defeats her after eight days of counting to become Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction and the first ever elected by popular vote, powered by Black women who made up twenty percent of the electorate and cured the ballots that decided it. The parallel: Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce, Mississippi's Reconstruction senators from the "Reconstruction's first Black officeholders" volume of Left Out of the History Books, were chosen by the legislature — Colom won the seat vote by vote.📚 From the 'Left Out…
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