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NAACP working to resist suppression of the black vote
A new National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) report on the suppression of the black vote refers to recent right-wing political tactics as the new Jim Crow. Now the esteemed civil rights organization is working to stop what its leaders see as a sinister and racially motivated attack on the black vote.
In a call today held by NAACP leaders, Rev. William Barber called these ploys some of “the most massive state-sponsored acts of voter suppression we have seen for decades.”
The president of the NAACP’s North Carolina chapter went on to add, “We know what it looks like, whether it happens in the 19th, 20th, or 21st century,” referring to tactics historically used to prevent blacks from voting. But today conservatives are working to influence state legislatures, rather than resorting to violent intimidation.
