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Article: Civil-rights veterans laud recent marches.
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2006
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Byline: Sherri Williams
Apr. 16--By raising their voices and taking to the streets, millions of marchers advocating immigration reform in recent weeks have given birth to an extension of the civil-rights movement, some observers say. Immigrant-rights activists learned an important lesson from 1960s civil-rights activists: Get in the streets to be heard, said the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a veteran civil-rights activist and Cincinnati resident. "Marches bring attention to a cause," said Shuttlesworth, 83, who worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham and Selma, Ala. "If you are not in the streets, you don't interest the average politicians ...
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