Religious leaders to mark MLK Day with early start for 2024 voter mobilization
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., right, and other civil rights leaders are pushed off the road by police as they resume a 1966 voting rights march begun by James Meredith. Later they continued their walk, marching single file along the highway’s shoulder. Meredith was shot by a white man as he was marching from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson, capital of Mississippi, in an effort to encourage black residents to vote in the state’s primary election. (RNS archive photo)
(RNS) — 'We're starting early because we need to spend a lot more time educating people about how to vote, how to vote against the rising tide of misinformation,' said the Rev. Barbara Williams-Skinner.
