Post by Logan on Feb 14, 2016 3:13:21 GMT -6
NAACP march blasts voter ID requirement as primary approaches
RALEIGH -- With a new voter ID requirement taking effect for next month’s primary, the NAACP’s biggest protest event of the year Saturday focused on voting rights.
Thousands attended the 10th annual Moral March on Raleigh and HKonJ People’s Assembly, filling an entire block of downtown’s Fayetteville Street with handmade signs, chants and singing. HKonJ stands for “Historic Thousands on Jones Street,” although the march no longer goes to Jones Street, where the state legislature is located.
Below-freezing temperatures didn’t seem to affect turnout, and NAACP state leader the Rev. William Barber reminded the crowd of what civil rights marchers faced in the past: violence, fire hoses and arrests.
“If they could stand the heat, we can stand the cold,” he said.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article59913356.html
RALEIGH -- With a new voter ID requirement taking effect for next month’s primary, the NAACP’s biggest protest event of the year Saturday focused on voting rights.
Thousands attended the 10th annual Moral March on Raleigh and HKonJ People’s Assembly, filling an entire block of downtown’s Fayetteville Street with handmade signs, chants and singing. HKonJ stands for “Historic Thousands on Jones Street,” although the march no longer goes to Jones Street, where the state legislature is located.
Below-freezing temperatures didn’t seem to affect turnout, and NAACP state leader the Rev. William Barber reminded the crowd of what civil rights marchers faced in the past: violence, fire hoses and arrests.
“If they could stand the heat, we can stand the cold,” he said.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article59913356.html