DALLAS MORNING NEWS: Black voters rally at Friendship-West Baptist Church amid record-breaking early voting totals

As Texas voters continued to break records at the polls during early voting, Black women voters rallied at Friendship-West Baptist Church last week to show support or to cast their ballots.

“It was the best 35 minutes of my life,” said Ethel Williams of DeSoto, who added that she voted almost as soon as the polls opened on Oct. 13, the first day. “I came out here to encourage others. There are a lot of people who are registered that still don’t vote.”

In-person voters in Dallas County through six days of early voting (294,335) have surpassed tallies from the 2016 presidential election (281,053), creating momentum the rally’s organizers say they wanted to see.