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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 what's happening in the state? >> i'll be honest, it's hard for people to follow it. politics. they're angry. sometimes they don't know who sure to be angry at. they know it's not fair, but that's an honest answer. >> but it's not just in yancey county the moral monday movement is finding allies. it's neighboring mitchell county, too. >> after 15 weeks of moral mond...

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. >> we're asking you to disperse. cease and disperse. we'll give you five minutes. >> since april of last year, reverend barber has been showing up at the north carolina legislature protesting what he calls an immoral agenda. >> we ought to have a mass sit-in and sit-in everywhere in every...

>> 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 state's republican agenda. joy boothe has been living in high mountains of yancey county, north carolina, since the 1970s. >> yes, it's very conservative. it's a predominantly white community. >> boothe was born in southern alabama to generations of sharecroppers. >> my dad's mom was 17 years old and there was no health care in the area, and she basically came ...

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. that's why i'm 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. it's a big deal to talk to you just as myself because i love my family. >> boothe made the four-hour trip to raleigh half a dozen times. last year she spoke to her neighbor...

North carolina, since the 191970s. >> yes, it's very conservative. it's a predominantly white community. >> boothe was born in southern alabama to generations of sharecroppers. >> my dad's 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 movement. >> i made a vow as a child, if i could, i would break the cycle of poverty, you know, ...