BHM: Herstory | Black women are mayors in three North Carolina towns Butner, Carrboro, and Henderson, it’s a first [Video]

BUTNER, N.C. (WTVD) — In the small towns of Butner, Carrboro, and Henderson the mayor has never been a Black woman, until a few months ago, when voters for the first time elected three Black women to lead their communities forward.

ABC11 sat down with the newly elected mayors as they start a new legacy of Black women in leadership

“It’s wonderful to have an aspiration, and it actually happens,” said Mayor of Henderson Melissa Elliott.

“You know, I wrote a book prior to my election and it said in my book, it was like, So what’s next for Melissa? And I said, I’m going to be the mayor,” she reflected.

From writing it down to reality. After a hotly contested and at times controversial race Elliott now leads Henderson, where 63% of the people in the city are Black.

“You have to understand. 14 decades, 142 years of just men and so now here I’m …