Ninety-eight percent of black women voted for Jones, while most white women — including those with college degrees — supported Moore, who’d been accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls decades ago. Yesterday #BlackWomen in Alabama refused to give a Senate seat to a pedophile.”Long before Tuesday’s special election, black women have been a force in Alabama. Alabama has produced some of the country’s most renowned female civil rights leaders. She was a civil rights activist in Alabama who led voting drives and became the first black woman in the state to run for Congress in 1964. A decade earlier, she led a national campaign against sexual assaults on black women.

Source: Washington Post December 16, 2017 13:01 UTC