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'This is our Selma moment,' clergy leaders announce on eve of 27-mile voting rights march in Texas – Episcopal News Service


‘This is our Selma moment,’ clergy leaders announce on eve of 27-mile voting rights march in Texas
The Rev. William J. Barber II will lead clergy and laypeople on a four-day, 27-mile march from Georgetown to Austin, Texas, to protest the rollback of voting rights and demand federal action.
By Yonat Shimron
Posted 12 hours ago
The Rev. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, addresses a crowd outside St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., on June 14, 2020. Photo: Jack Jenkins/RNS
[Religion News Service] Fifty-six years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of clergy and laypeople on a 54-mile voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, the state capital of Alabama. ....

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