Schools Matter: Mass Civil Rights Demonstration Planned for Raleigh July 20

Schools Matter: Mass Civil Rights Demonstration Planned for Raleigh July 20

Mass Civil Rights Demonstration Planned for Raleigh July 20

by Jim Horn

The vote by the Tea Party Five to destroy the most effective socioeconomic school integration plan in America has spawned a new era of civil disobedience in Raleigh and a re-connection of the state NAACP with the flowering of the Civil Rights Movement. From the News and Observer:

RALEIGH In an attempt to draw parallels with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., a pair of local activists issued a letter today explaining why they were willing to be arrested to oppose the end of Wake County’s school diversity policy.

In the letter, the Rev. William Barber, head of the state NAACP, and the Rev. Nancy Petty, pastor of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, write that their actions were decided to force the community to