MSN: “Priscilla Dunn of Bessemer, a career educator who served 24 years in the Alabama Legislature and inspired other Black women who followed her into politics, has died. Dunn was 80.
Dunn served in the Alabama House from 1998 until 2009, when she defeated seven Democratic opponents to win a vacant seat in the state Senate. Voters reelected Dunn to the Senate three times. She missed much of her final term because of an illness and did not run for reelection in 2022.”