NAACP calls Aug. 26 march in Washington, D.C
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The national convention of the NAACP, meeting in Detroit in mid-July, announced a "symbolic silent march" of NAACP members and friends in Washington, D.C. It is set for 12 noon, Sat., Aug. 26, 1989 John Johnson, director of the Labor and Voter Education departments of the NAACP, told Socialist Action:
The march is designed to protest the dismantlins Trite States desigsed to priest the die NAACP s the civil eights gains of minorities and worene 19he march down Fifth Avenue in New York City to protest Jim Crow, segregation, and lynching."
The Washington protest will focus on the four recent Supreme Court decisions that gutted hard-won gains fo Blacks and women over the past three decades. The Court reversed its past positions on affirmative action, racia discrimination qå the job, and abortion rights. For more information, call the NAACP at (301) 358-8900.