Y ear of thousands of people in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday outside the capital of South Carolina in a message that you can have the civil rights movement half a century: the need to protect the right of all citizens to vote.
The tone was similar in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King preached from 1960 until his death. In the state of South Carolina, speakers condemned the laws of the identification of voters said it aims to prevent the participation of black voters black.
For over 13 years in the state of South Carolina, and interest in the NAACP's annual rally on the Confederate flag that waves are still out of the Legislature. But on Monday, has become a civil rights group and a focus on laws that require voters to show identification of a photo before they can cast their votes, which the group and other critics say that private discrimination toward African Americans and the poor.
Ministry of Justice rejected the new law and the U.S. the state of South Carolina last month, but the governor Nikki Haley vowed to fight against the federal government in court. Spend at least half a dozen other states of similar laws in the identification of voters in 2011.
"This year was quite a test of faith, we have seen the biggest attack on voting rights in isolation," said Benjamin Todd Jealous, NAACP president.
The change in tactics, as noted by the keynote speaker, Eric Holder U.S. Fiscal. Last month, Holder said the Justice Department is committed to fighting against all the laws that keep people through the ballot box. He told the crowd that he was fully aware that it may become the first African country to the Attorney General of the United States without bloodshed by the King and other civil rights pioneers.
"The right to vote is not only a cornerstone of government we have is the lifeblood of our democracy, no power has proven to be more powerful or more than an integral part of the success of this experience, the great American, efforts to expand the franchise, "said Holder. "Let me be very, very clear - arc of American history and leaned toward inclusion, not exclusion, and more of our citizens in the electoral process must ensure that this continues."
Texas, the electoral law before the ID is the new Ministry of Justice, which analyzes the changes in voting laws in nine southern states, mainly due to its history of discriminatory voting practices. Includes other states that passed laws like in 2011, Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
Similar laws already exist in the books of Georgia and Indiana. Approved by President George W. Bush and the Department of Justice. It was approved by Indiana law, passed in 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States in 2008.
Critics have compared the laws of poll taxes and tests that are used to prevent blacks from voting during the civil rights era. Supporters, many of them Republicans, say there is a need for these laws to prevent fraud.
In Washington, celebrated President Barack Obama and his family in the day, helping to build shelves of the local school library.
Atlanta church where King once preached, and Rev. Raphael Warnock said in a legacy of U.S. contempt for the king by the "kill those who died and the principles for which he fought."
He appealed to the voters a law ID insult to the memory of civil rights leader.
"You can not celebrate Dr. King on Monday, and undermine the ability of people to vote on Super Tuesday," Warnock said.
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