Civil rights leader andRepairers of the Breach President Bishop William Barber led multiple marches to the polls across North Carolina on Thursday to mark the first day of early voting, which ends Oct. 31 at 3 p.m.
At North Carolina Central University (NCCU) in Durham, Barber said the march was meant to inspire students and other voters and to remind them that the right to vote was not won by “staying quiet.”
“We marched for it. We fought for it, mobilized,” Barber said in an interview with reporters in front of the NCCU Law School where early voting was taking place.
In North Carolina, voters fought to hold on to same day voter registration and early voting, Barber said…