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Family. >> boothe made the four-hour trip to raleigh half a dozen times. last year she spoke to her neighbors, nearly one in five of whom lives below the poverty line at a moral monday demonstration. how do you neighbors feel about whats happening in the state? >> ill be honest, its hard for people to follow it. politics. theyre angry. sometimes they dont know who sure to be angry at. they know its not fair, but thats an honest answer. >> but its not just in yancey county the moral monday moveme...

When these folks took over in raleigh last year, people were like, oh, lord, they got a supermajority, what are we going to do? some of us said, what did we do in the past? what did dr. king do, what did young people do? they stood up. they refused to accept reality as it was being told by the dominant power. >> were asking you to disperse. cease and disperse. well give you five minutes. >> since april of last year, reverend barber has been showing up at the north carolina legislature protesting...

>> we ought to have a mass sit-in and sit-in everywhere in every houses, in every hall, all over the general assembly. >> week by week, month by month, the moral mondays movement has grown. in part, by engaging ordinary folks around the states republican agenda. joy boothe has been living in high mountains of yancey county, north carolina, since the 1970s. >> yes, its very conservative. its a predominantly white community. >> boothe was born in southern alabama to generations of sharecroppers. >...

Monday movement. >> i made a vow as a child, if i could, i would break the cycle of poverty, you know, domestic violence, that i would do my best to break those cycles. thats why im willing to talk to you today. >> her activism has come at a cost. >> not all my relatives in the deep south agree with me. as i became more involved and more visible, people stopped being my friend. cousins stopped being my friend on facebook. its a big deal to talk to you just as myself because i love my family. >> ...

North carolina, since the 191970s. >> yes, its very conservative. its a predominantly white community. >> boothe was born in southern alabama to generations of sharecroppers. >> my dads mom was 17 years old and there was no health care in the area, and she basically came out of field to have my dad, got an infection and died when my daddy was 6 weeks old. i saw what it was like to live in a community with very little or no health care. >> last year, boothe found herself drawn to the moral monday...