Thursday, June 27, 2013

NAACP: Voting Acts Ruling by US Supreme Court reverses years of gains

The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) released the following statements in response to this week's U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act.

From Roslyn M. Brock, Chairman, NAACP National Board of Directors:

"This decision has the potential to set voting rights back more than fifty years," stated NAACP Chairman Roslyn M. Brock. "It is especially unsettling in a year when we commemorate Medgar Evers, a man who

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