Black leaders plan caravan in support of Voting Rights Act

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Source: Montgomery Advertiser

Black leaders in the state said Tuesday an upcoming caravan in support of keeping the Voting Rights Act of 1965 intact will be historic.

They say it will unite black leaders, including Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam and those representing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference made prominent by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., for the first time in this generation.

“We have risen above our historical differences, and we are united,” said Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford.

The National Coalition of Leaders to Save Section 5 announced on Tuesday that Farrakhan would join them for a June 14 caravan and pilgrimage that will stop at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, at the Shelby County courthouse in Columbiana, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, and conclude with a 4 p.m. event at the state Capitol in Montgomery.

Read more: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013306040031

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2. This is good and I hope they won't stop with AL although IIRC it's where this latest attempt is from

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3. K&R

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4. New link to the article

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013306040031

Newspapers are terrible about shuffling their content around willy-nilly, and Gannett fishwraps seem to be the worst.