In addition, some African American women living in the South were able to register and vote in 1920. According to historian Roslyn Terborg-Penn, “…Black female participation in the elective process during 1920 was extensive enough to occasion a prediction from Georgia State Representative Thomas M. Bell that the Nineteenth Amendment would destroy white supremacy in Georgia since the amendment had enfranchised enough women.” In South Carolina, African American women “apparently took the white male registrars by surprise, and no plan to disqualify them was in effect. Many Black women reported to the registrar’s office, but the only discrimination was that whites were registered first."