40 days and 40 nights - NAACP's "America's Journey for Justice" March from Selma, Alabama to Washington DC begins Saturday, August 1st, 2015

Dates targeted for States along the NAACP's Selma to Washington DC March Route. City stops include Atlanta and Charlotte.

The New NAACP President Cornell William Brooks: "Our focus today are on the issues for the 860-mile 'America's Journey for Justice' March from Selma to Washington DC...NOT Reality-TV."


NAACP President Cornell Brooks and a Coalition begin to answer media questions following the "America's Journey for Justice" June 15th, 2015 Press Conference at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.


"The Television/Print/Internet Mediums - though more concerned with former NAACP branch president Rachel Dolezal in the Q and A session - showed up to get video clips and soundbites about the historic biblical Forty Days-Forty Nights march."

OUR LIVES, OUR VOTES, OUR JOBS, OUR SCHOOLS MATTER

The NAACP, together with a broad coalition of partners, announced "America’s Journey for Justice" - March from Selma to Washington DC - at the June 15th, 2015 Press Conference at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.

Led by NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks, America’s Journey for Justice – a historic 860-mile march from Selma, Alabama to Washington, DC – will mobilize activists and advance a focused national policy agenda that protects the right of every American to a fair criminal justice system, uncorrupted and unfettered access to the ballot box, sustainable jobs with a living wage, and equitable public education.

America’s Journey for Justice will unite partners from the social justice, youth activism, civil rights, democracy reform, religious, not-for-profit, labor, corporate, and environmental communities to call for justice for all Americans under the unifying theme “Our Lives, Our Votes, Our Jobs, Our Schools Matter.”

America’s Journey for Justice will commence on August 1st to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. The march will feature rallies and teach-ins along the route, satellite events across the country, and a #JusticeSummer social media campaign – and will culminate in a Washington, DC rally and advocacy day.
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Wade Henderson, President of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, addresses the media on the importance of this huge undertaking.


Dr. E. Faye Williams, National President/CEO of the National Congress of Black Women, fired up the crowd on the urgency of this 860-mile National March for Justice, Voting Rights, and more.


Rev. William Barber, President of the NAACP North Carolina State Conference, says this march is important and outlined the many cruelties out-front and
Behind-the-Scenes in his State and other nearby States.


NAACP President Cornell Brooks says that each day the March will travel roughly 20-miles for forty days and nights. The route includes stops in Atlanta,Ga. and Charlotte, N.C., where there will be teach-ins. Churches and community center will provide overnight stays with cots/sleeping bags.


After the Lincoln Memorial Press Conference, photo op here (l to r): Yours Truly Kirk Tanter, Wade Henderson, NAACP President Cornell Brooks, Rev. William Barber, and Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen.