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Article: Voting Rights Act Rally Supported
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- Sacramento Observer
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- July 20, 2005
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Sacramento Observer
07-20-2005
MILWAUKEE -- NAACP delegates to the 96th Annual Convention voiced rousing
support for the Rainbow Push Coalition of Conscience march and rally on
August 6 in Atlanta to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Voting
Rights Act and to mobilize for support of the Act's extension.
"Anyone who claims that voting rights for minority Americans are now secure
need only look to Florida in 1000 and Ohio in 2004," said NAACP board
chairman Julian Bond.
"A recent report said that 28 percent of all Ohio voters and 52 percent of
Black voters said they experienced problems in ...