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      The crowd during the 2015 Moral March on Raleigh, North Carolina

      NC Voting Rights Fight Moves From the Courtroom to the Streets

      'This Is Our Selma, This Is Our Time, This Is Our Vote'

      Sue Sturgis
      Feb 06, 2016

      As the federal trial over North Carolina's restrictive voter ID law wrapped up this week in Winston-Salem, the N.C. NAACP -- the lead plaintiff suing the state over its ID requirements -- was getting ready to shift its fight for voting rights from the courtroom to the streets.

      The civil rights group serves as the lead organizer of the annual Mass Moral March on Raleigh, which takes place this year on Saturday, Feb. 13 and involves over 150 supporting organizations. In its 10th year now, the march will kick off at Shaw University -- the historically black school where the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was formed in 1960 -- and wind through downtown before ending near the state capitol. It's expected to draw thousands of people to rally for a 14-point legislative agenda calling for well-funded public schools, living wages and health care for all.

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      A March In North Carolina For The Soul Of America

      Isaiah J. Poole
      Feb 10, 2014

      The scene was Raleigh, N.C., but for many of the people who were there the message and its impact was intended to be national: There is a growing populist resistance to the conservative extremist agenda, and the tens of thousands of people from 43 states who converged on the North Carolina state capital on Saturday is just the beginning.

      The people who came to North Carolina to join Moral March on Raleigh saw it as the next phase of the push-back against tea-party Republicans and their assault in North Carolina and elsewhere against economic justice and democratic rights. Campaign for America's Future co-director Roger Hickey was among them, and he has posted on OurFuture.org his account of a "profoundly transformative" movement that "could affect politicians of all stripes this year and for years and decades to come."

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