NAACP President Cornell W. Brooks, right, and Stephen Green, national director of the NAACP Youth and College Division, are led in handcuffs Monday from the Roanoke office of Congressman Bob Goodlatte after a six-hour sit-in on voting rights issues.
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Voting rights fight comes to Va.
National NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and Stephen Green, the civil rights organization’s youth director, were arrested Monday in the Roanoke office of Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte after a six-hour sit-in calling for the full restoration of the federal Voting Rights Act, the NAACP said.
