Organizations led by civil rights leaders Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks, who both died this month, were in the forefront of the fight for equal rights, but they are now struggling to stay relevant. And nowhere is that fight more evident than in the group founded by Martin Luther King Jr.: the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Here in Charlotte, the NAACP has reactivated its local chapter, but it doesn’t have the influence it once did. Do you think there is still a need for Civil Rights groups or is Rev. Al Sharpton all we need?
