Reverend Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King, III, Charles Steele and Warren Ballantine will meet in the ATL this morning to announce plans for a Nov. 16th March on Washington to protest the outbreak of hate crimes around the country.
The four are scheduled to appear at 10 a.m. today outside of the Richard B. Russell Federal Building in Atlanta (75 Spring St. S.W.) and demand federal intervention into the sudden rise of noose hangings and swastikas.
According to a statement from Sharpton's National Action Network, the group will call on the Justice Department to protect the civil rights of U.S. citizens in the wake of these incidents, which seem to have been triggered by the noose hung in a tree in Jena, Louisiana by three white students.
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