Federal action again moves the Mississippi Legislature closer to the racial demographics of the state

America said it was ready for change — until a Black man was put in charge

After the Great Depression and World War II, a consensus was born in which most people most of the time believed federal law and the federal government should serve everyone and treat everyone equally. That they did not actually do that was the political basis for the rights movements that emerged in the decades after the war. Until the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, it wasn’t really possible to say liberalism and democrac…

Federal action again moves the Mississippi Legislature closer to the racial demographics of the state

The slow, steady increase in Black Mississippians being elected to public office is the direct result of actions of the federal government — the executive, legislative and most importantly the judiciary — and not because of actions of the state.