在民权地标，庆祝科洛姆胜利的欢庆之夜在图加卢学院，支持者们为斯科特·科洛姆的胜利载歌载舞，喜极而泣。他将成为自重建时期以来密西西比州首位黑人美国参议员。
At a Civil Rights Landmark, a Night of Jubilation Over Colom’s Victory At Tougaloo College, supporters danced and wept over Scott Colom’s victory. He will be Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since the Reconstruction era.
在图加卢学院的草坪上，距离民权领袖范妮·卢·哈默和梅德加·埃弗斯发表演讲的教堂只有几步之遥，他们跳起舞来。
On the lawn of Tougaloo College, steps from the chapel where the civil rights leaders Fannie Lou Hamer and Medgar Evers gave speeches, they danced.
来自图加卢学院以及其他附近传统黑人院校的学生们站在人行道两旁欢呼鼓掌。黑人兄弟会和姐妹会的成员们身着印有字母标志和代表色的服装，互相拥抱。“感谢主，我们做到了，”一名妇女宣称。
Students from Tougaloo and other nearby historically Black institutions lined the sidewalk to cheer and applaud. Members of Black fraternities and sororities, dressed in their letters and colors, embraced one another. “Thank the Lord, we did it,” one woman declared.
这是许多人祈祷终将到来的一天，尽管他们永远不知道何时会到来。那天晚上，斯科特·科洛姆作为密西西比州当选参议员，在学院教堂前发表讲话，让他们的希望变为现实。
It was a day that many had prayed would come, though they could never know when. That evening, Scott Colom made their hopes a reality, speaking in front of the college chapel as the senator-elect from Mississippi.
21岁的泰勒·多特森是图加卢学院的大一新生，他满心敬畏。“这就是一切，”他说，形容着听到科洛姆先生获胜时的感受。“我们已经等了很久了。”
Tyler Dotson, 21, a freshman at Tougaloo College, was awe-struck. “It was everything,” he said, describing how it felt to hear that Mr. Colom had won. “We’ve been waiting a long time.”
“这是件大事，会被载入史册，”他咧嘴笑着补充道。“我们回来了。”密西西比州美国参议员选举结果宣布科洛姆先生获胜，当地全国有色人种协进会办公室爆发出庆祝的欢呼声。他将成为自重建时期以来该州首位黑人参议员。
“It’s something big, remembered in history,” he added, grinning. “We back.”When the U.S. Senate race in Mississippi was called for Mr. Colom, who will become the first Black senator from the state since the Reconstruction era, shouts of celebration erupted at the local N.A.A.C.P. office.
在杰克逊的一家律师事务所，所有人都停下工作，高兴得尖叫起来。
At a law office in Jackson, everyone stopped working and screamed for joy.
在图加卢，胜利演讲开始前很久，一排排椅子就已经坐满了人，数百人聚集在这所学院。这里曾是一代民权活动人士和黑人领袖的避风港和试炼场。
At Tougaloo, the rows of chairs filled long before the victory speech began, as hundreds gathered at the college that had been both a haven and a proving ground for a generation of civil rights activists and Black leaders.
距离选举已经过去八天。民权领袖梅德加·埃弗斯曾在该州领导争取投票权的运动，他遇刺身亡至今已有63年。而距离一位黑人参议员被选出来代表密西西比州，已经过去150多年。
It had been eight days since the election. It had been 63 years since Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who led voting rights drives in the state, was assassinated in his driveway. And it had been more than 150 years since a Black senator had been chosen to represent Mississippi.
几代人以来，密西西比州一直是奴隶制、种族隔离、私刑和黑人选民压制的堡垒。
For generations, Mississippi was a bastion of slavery, segregation, lynching and Black voter suppression.
科隆将成为代表该州的第三位黑人参议员。前两位是由州议会选出、在重建时期任职的——科隆将是首位由选民选出的黑人参议员。
Mr. Colom will be the third Black senator to represent the state. The first two were chosen by the state legislature and served during Reconstruction — Mr. Colom will be the first chosen by voters.
“这让我知道我的努力没有白费，”身穿黑金相间的阿尔法·菲·阿尔法兄弟会夹克的杰马里厄斯·埃弗里特说，他今年20岁，科隆也属于这个兄弟会。“我能坐在曾经控制像我这样的人的席位上。”密西西比州的一些人，包括科隆的妻子娜迪亚·科隆，指出2008年巴拉克·奥巴马当选总统是这种希望最后一次在他们的社区中回荡的时刻。
“It lets me know that my work isn’t in vain,” said Jermarius Everett, 20, wearing a black and gold jacket of Alpha Phi Alpha, the fraternity to which Mr. Colom also belongs. “I can sit in the seats that once controlled people like me.”Some in Mississippi, including Nadia Colom, Mr. Colom’s wife, pointed to President Barack Obama’s election in 2008 as the last moment where this kind of hope reverberated through their communities.
在杰克逊市中心一家酒吧的露台上，终身生活在深南部的罗伯特·莫里斯坐在那里说，这次参议员选举创造了他从未想过作为深南部居民会亲眼见证的历史。
At a bar in downtown Jackson, Robert Morris, 37, sat on the patio and said the Senate election had made history he never expected to witness as a lifelong resident of the Deep South.
“我从没想过会看到黑人总统，也从没想过会看到黑人参议员，尤其是来自密西西比州的黑人参议员，”莫里斯说。“还记得安德烈·3000说过南方有话要说吗？好吧，现在密西西比州有话要说。大家都在关注我们，我们要把事情做对。”多年来，许多受过大学教育的密西西比州居民离开该州，去别处寻找工作和更进步的环境。图加洛学院21岁的政治学专业大四学生特里·罗杰斯二世说，科隆的胜利可能有助于改变这一局面。
“I never thought I’d see a Black president, never thought I’d see a Black senator, especially a Black senator from Mississippi,” Mr. Morris said. “Remember when André 3000 said the South has something to say? Well, now Mississippi does. Everybody is paying attention to us, and we’re going to do things right.”Many college-educated residents of Mississippi have left the state over the years to seek jobs and more progressive environments elsewhere. Terry Rogers II, a 21-year-old senior studying political science at Tougaloo, said Mr. Colom’s win could help change that.
“这是我们多年来、几代人一直在祈祷的事情，”他说。罗杰斯周二整天开着大学的面包车，在政府办公室之间接送学生查询他们的选票情况，当时选情仍未揭晓。“这让我想继续做一名密西西比人。这让我比以往更爱我的家乡州。”
“This is what we’ve been praying for, for years, for generations,” he said. Mr. Rogers had spent Tuesday driving a college van to shuttle students between government offices to check on their ballots as the race remained uncalled. “This makes me want to continue to be a Mississippian. This makes me love my state even more than I already did.”
罗杰斯说话间，另一名学生欢呼着、难以置信地喊道：“他赢了！你们看见了吗？你们看见了吗？”许多选民带着下一代一同前来，渴望让他们感受这一刻。
As Mr. Rogers spoke, another student shouted in joyous disbelief: “He won! You see that? You see that?”Many voters brought along the next generation, eager to help them absorb the moment.
“我无法用语言形容这份喜悦，”杰克逊市的律师丽莎·罗斯（Lisa Ross），63岁，说道。她带着外甥孙女和外甥孙来到图加洛学院，“让他们看看斯科特，看看他们自己未来能成为什么样的人。”“我们一直在努力奋斗，我很高兴我们没有放弃，”她说。
“I don’t have the words to describe the joy,” said Lisa Ross, 63, a lawyer in Jackson. She brought her great-niece and great-nephew to Tougaloo College, “to see Scott and what they can become.”“We’ve been working so hard, and I’m so glad we didn’t give up,” she said.
杰克逊市的医生旺达·里夫斯（Vonda Reeves），68岁，在网球课间隙得知科隆获胜的消息。随后，她说，“世界仿佛炸开了。一切对我来说都变得超现实。”“感觉我仿佛悬浮了起来，因为我感受到的喜悦，”里夫斯医生说，并补充道，她希望父母能在场见证这一里程碑。
Vonda Reeves, 68, a doctor in Jackson, learned of Mr. Colom’s win during a break in her tennis lesson. Then, she said, “the world exploded. Everything became surreal to me.”“It was like I was levitating because of the joy I felt,” Dr. Reeves said, adding that she wished her parents had been there to see the milestone.
这场庆祝活动反映了科隆建立的联盟：不仅有因削弱其投票权和代表权的做法而愤怒的黑人选民，也有希望通过科隆结束其政治干旱的白人民主党人。
The celebration reflected the coalition that Mr. Colom had built: not just the Black voters enraged by efforts to undermine their voting power and their representation, but the white Democrats who had hoped that their political drought could end with Mr. Colom.
32岁的玛丽·伊夫林·迪尔（Mary Evelyn Dear）从未去过图加洛学院，曾犹豫要不要独自前往。但她在眼角涂了些亮片，还是开车赶了过来，不愿错过这一刻。
Mary Evelyn Dear, 32, had never been to Tougaloo College and hesitated to go alone. But she dabbed some glitter around the corners of her eyes and drove over, unwilling to miss the moment.
“我想让这件事成真，太想了——这是历史的一部分，”白人选民迪尔女士说。在连续几天反复刷新选票统计数字后，她跳上沙发，尖叫着欢呼。许多领袖视科隆的胜利为投票权的一场凄美胜利。
“I wanted this to happen so badly — it’s part of history,” said Ms. Dear, who is white. She jumped on her couch and shrieked with joy after days of refreshing the ballot totals over and over again. Many leaders saw Mr. Colom’s win as a poignant triumph for voting rights.
“密西西比州选民创造了历史，因为他们拒绝被恐吓、气馁或被视为无望，”全美有色人种协进会（N.A.A.C.P.）全国主席德里克·约翰逊在一份声明中说。他补充道，今年该会在该州开设了11个外勤办公室，并登记了1.7万多名选民。杰克逊办公室至今仍留有埃弗斯在该州工作时期留下的弹孔，当时他经历过多次暗杀未遂，最终死在自家车道上。
“Mississippi voters made history because they refused to be intimidated, discouraged, or counted out,” said Derrick Johnson, the national president of the N.A.A.C.P., in a statement. This year, the N.A.A.C.P. opened 11 field offices and registered more than 17,000 voters, he added. The Jackson office still has bullet holes from the time Mr. Evers worked in the state, when he faced several assassination attempts before being killed in his own driveway.
45岁的雷金纳德·克里尔从小听着父亲讲述密西西比州吉姆·克劳时代的故事长大。周三，他让父亲通过视频通话与他一起观看了科隆的演讲。
Reginald Crear, 45, had grown up hearing his father’s stories about the Jim Crow era in Mississippi. On Wednesday, he had his father on a video call so he could watch Mr. Colom’s speech with him.
“这真的让我鸡皮疙瘩都起来了，”他说，并补充道，“这太超现实了，真是个超现实的时刻。”
“It really gives me goose bumps,” he said, adding “it was surreal, a real surreal moment.”
在欢欣鼓舞的庆祝声中，密西西比州共和党主席迈克·赫斯特在一份声明中说：“斯科特·科隆在密西西比州进行了一场漂亮的竞选，我祝贺他获胜。”
Amid the exuberant celebrations, Mike Hurst, the chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, said in a statement, “Scott Colom ran a good campaign here in Mississippi, and I congratulate him on his victory.”
他接着说：“选举或许决定谁担任公职，但不能定义我们作为一个民族是谁，也不能削弱我们珍视的原则。明天，太阳将像往常一样升起，照耀我们昨日热爱、今日依然热爱的密西西比州。”
He continued: “While elections may determine who holds public office, they do not define who we are as a people nor diminish the principles we hold dear. Tomorrow, the sun will rise over the same Mississippi we loved yesterday.”
53岁的恩松比·兰布赖特当时正在当地全美有色人种协进会办公室，得知科隆获胜的消息后，人们开始唱起民权运动圣歌《我们终将胜利》，并拥抱痛哭。她身穿一件印有埃米特·蒂尔照片的T恤，这名14岁男孩于1955年在密西西比州被私刑处死。
Nsombi Lambright, 53, was at the local N.A.A.C.P. office when the news broke that Mr. Colom had won. People began singing “We Shall Overcome,” the civil rights anthem, and started hugging and crying. She wore a shirt with a picture of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
“过去一年里，我们感到真的备受打击，”她说，并指出18岁的诺兰·韦尔斯与朋友出游乘船后被发现身亡，以及幼童科亨·怀利被一名警察开枪打死等事件，举例说明今年震动密西西比州黑人社区的事件。“我们需要这个胜利。”
“We have felt really beat up over the last year,” she said, pointing to the deaths of Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old found dead after a boat trip with friends, and Kohen Wiley, the toddler shot and killed by a police officer, as examples of events that had shaken Black Mississippians this year. “We needed this.”
密西西比今日报政治记者迈克尔·戈德伯格在杰克逊参与了采访报道。
Michael Goldberg, the Politics reporter for Mississippi Today, contributed reporting from Jackson.