HOUSTON (AP)
-- The head of the NAACP on Monday likened the group's fight against
conservative-backed voter ID laws that have been passed in several
states to the great civil rights battles of the 1960s.
Benjamin
Todd Jealous, the CEO and president of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, said these are "Selma and Montgomery
times," referring to historic Alabama civil rights confrontations.
He
challenged those attending the NAACP's annual convention to redouble
their efforts to get out the vote in November.
"We
must overwhelm the rising tide of voting suppression with the high tide
of registration and mobilization and motivation and protection," he
said.
"Simply put, the NAACP will never stand by as any state tries to encode discrimination into law," Jealous said.
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