#SherrilynIfyll "This is why Black southerners were so laser-focused on the vote... Black residents outnumbered their white counterparts in counties throughout the south. The ability to elect candidates of their choice to public office would, Black people believed, change the political calculus and create the conditions in which Jim Crow would fall... they knew that white supremacist control could only be contained when Black voters held a measure of political power. https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/the-critical-connection-between-brown?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1160337&post_id=198176485&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=6pvl6&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email