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Article: District Voting Rights Campaign Targets Middle America
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- Washington Informer
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- July 11, 2001
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Moore, R.A.
Washington Informer
07-11-2001
District Voting Rights Campaign Targets Middle America
By R.A.Moore Capitol Hill
After the speeches, press releases and press conferences.... The actual
works begins.
Fifteen of the District's first modern day "patriots" desended on the
National Mall last weekend to educate and inform middle America on the
issue of voting rights for the District.
They plan to enlist some unlikely allies in the fight for District voting
representation in Congress....The 25 million or so tourist that frequent
the city, particulary in the spring and summer months.
Earlier in the week, at a press conference announcing the formation of
"Freedom Summer 2001" Mayor Anthony Williams ...