2014 MLK March

ByAnita Crawley

You’re invited to join NCBI and Many other groups at the

Seaside Martin Luther King Day March and Program
Voting Rights Signs Welcome and Encouraged! 

When
Monday
Jan 20th, 2014
 Meet at 11AM
March starts at 12 Noon
Program starts at 1PM

Where
Meet & March at Broadway and Noche Buena
Program at Oldemeyer Center
986 Hilby Ave, Seaside

 
Dear NCBI Members and Supporters,

     As usual, NCBI  will be participating in this year’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade jointly organized by the Pan Hellenic Council and the City of Seaside. 

     Our NCBI Chapter Administrator, Steven Goings, has gained permission of the MLK Day Parade organizers, to include voting rights signs, songs and chants to commemorate Dr. King’s leadership on this issue and to acknowledge the new attack on voting rights in our own time.

     50 years ago last August, Dr. King delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 

     Two of the most tangible results of this era in the Civil Rights Movement was the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

     Six months ago, the US Supreme Court struck down section 4; the key enforcement provision of the Voting Rights Act.  This is the most ominous and severe set back for civil rights in this country in the last 50 years. 

     So come out and help us draw attention to the need to protect the rights for which Dr. King and too many others died.

–Steven Goings,
NCBI Chapter Administrator

Click the following links for voter resources:

 Voting Rights Resources
(Proposed)Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 (description of legislation)
NAACP Talking Points on (proposed) Voting Rights Act Amendment

“”

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged – and without which none can be protected.” 
                                                –Ben Jealous

 
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