COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says his civil rights organization will announce its plans to fight for social justice and against poverty at several stops across South Carolina next week.
Jackson said Wednesday his Rainbow Push Coalition will announce in Charleston on Monday night a 10-point plan to make the South better. He will continue with stops in Columbia and Greenville on Tuesday.
Jackson says laws requiring voters to show identification are grave threats to the advancements blacks were able to make in the civil rights movements.
He says most governments in Southern states no longer care about civil rights. He says the apathy shows even in how governments are using more prison labor so they can cut public works employees, which tend to be more stable blue collar jobs.
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