On Saturday, a crowd of riled-up citizens estimated by the North Carolina NAACP to be upwards of 80,000—the largest such gathering in the South since the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march—headed to the state Capitol to protest the extremist policies of North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature.
Author: Lynn Parramore
Lynn Parramore is a senior editor for AlterNet. She is cofounder of Recessionwire, founding editor of New Deal 2.0, and author of Reading the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture. Follow her on Twitter @LynnParramore.