Willie Nelson in 2019 (photo by Jana Birchum)
Country music legend Willie Nelson will perform and Texas political legacy Luci Baines Johnson will speak at the Texas State Capitol tomorrow, July 31, during a rally for voting rights. Both join the Moral March for Democracy event, beginning on the south steps of the Capitol at 10am.
In a press conference Friday afternoon, the organizing Poor People’s Campaign announced Johnson’s appearance, citing her voting rights advocacy as the daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The livestreamed conference featured civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, Congressman Beto O’Rourke, and Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II – all of whom will also participate in Saturday’s rally. The event concludes a four-day, 27-mile effort protesting legislative attempts to suppress voting rights in Texas. That march, inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 march from Selma to Mo
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