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Men and women from different religious groups march toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington Aug. 2, 2021, during a protest for voting rights and economic justice organized by the Poor People s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. (CNS photo/Melissa Cedillo, National Catholic Reporter)
Washington Hundreds of people marched and over 200 of them were arrested Aug. 2 at a Moral Monday rally for voting rights and economic justice near the Capitol.
Among those arrested were the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose involvement in civil rights goes back to being a companion of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. the day he was assassinated in 1968. Also arrested was the Rev. William Barber II, the Black Protestant minister who originated the Moral Monday marches in 2013 in North Carolina.