First Black mayor of former sundown town: “You don't run from your past"
Monday, April 12, 2021
Darrell Davis can't get his phone to stop ringing after Edmond, Oklahoma residents elected him the first Black mayor of a community that once banned Black people from living there.
In the former sundown town, only 5 percent of the roughly 81,000 residents identify as African American. Nevertheless, voters overwhelmingly chose longtime city councilman Darrell Davis to lead the city into the future.