NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks and five other members of the civil rights group arrested during a sit-in will appear before an Alabama judge on Monday before attending another rally at Noon near Senator Jeff Sessions’ district office. NAACP protesters and National NAACP President Cornell W. Brooks were arrested at Jeff Sessions office […]
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Police End NAACP Sit-in Against Attorney General Nominee
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Several NAACP protesters led by their national president were escorted away in handcuffs by police after staging a sit-in Tuesday at the Alabama office of Sen. Jeff Sessions, the nominee for U.S. attorney general, the civil rights group said. NAACP protesters and National NAACP President Cornell W. Brooks were arrested at […]
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NAACP Sit-in at Alabama Office of Attorney General Nominee
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Several NAACP members, led by their national president, staged a sit-in Tuesday at the Alabama office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions to protest his nomination to be the nation’s next attorney general. Nearly a dozen members of the civil rights organization sat in Sessions’ office in Mobile, Alabama — the city […]