Omaha Quakers protest on July 4th over voting rights

From the nation’s founding through the women’s suffrage and civil rights movements, the Religious Society of Friends — a Christian denomination better known as Quakers — have advocated for causes tied to the principles in the nation’s founding documents.

On Independence Day, local Quakers gathered at 72nd and Dodge in central Omaha, holding what they called a “Declaration of Resistance.”

Carol Gilbert says she is concerned that voting rights are being undermined: “I was always taught that you can’t sit still and let things happen. You have to talk about it.”…

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