Mark Your Calendar, Journey for Justice Kicks Off Aug. 1

Marchers joining America's Journey for Justice will leave Selma, Ala., on Aug. 1 and walk more than 800 miles to Washington, DC, focusing attention along the way on the need for public policies that protect the lives of Americans, the jobs of our citizens, and the people's right to vote.

Rallies and teach-ins will be held in communities from Alabama to Virginia, beginning Aug. 3 in Montgomery, Ala., and ending with a rally and lobby day at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 15.

The Journey for Justice is a project of the NAACP and partners including CWA, the Democracy Initiative, Common Cause, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, 1199 SEIU, The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Sierra Club, National Bar Association, Black Women's Roundtable and others.

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