DC Voting Rights March
"Free DC! Free DC!," was the only sound that could be heard as an estimated 5,000 citizens and civil rights leaders braved the cold, damp, and windy weather to demand voting representation. The DC Voting Rights March was led by Mayor Adrian Fenty, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District City Council, DC Vote and other groups in a civil rights coalition on Emancipation Day. The March commenced at Freedom Plaza (13th and Pennsylvania Ave., NW) and proceeded along Pennsylvania Avenue, then rallying the U.S. Capitol Reflecting Pool.
The residents of D.C. are fed up over Congress not giving us the right to vote. We are here today to say to Congress, 'If you have the legislation in front of you that would give us the full vote in the House of Representatives, we want you to pass that legislation now! - Mayor Adrian Fenty
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DC City Council member Jack Evans used powerful quote from cultural anthropoligist, Margaret Mead, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfull committed citizens can change the world."
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DC City Council member Jack Evans
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DC City Council member Jack Evans
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Vincent Gray, Chair of the DC City Council addresses crowd before march to Capital Hill to demand Congressional Voting Rights for DC residents. "Today is historic.It is the day we send a message to the world, and especially the Congress of the United States, that we are sick and tired of 200 years of denial, with one excuse after anoter as to why a vote for teh District in Congress is not possible."
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Vincent Gray, Chair of the DC City Council is supported by DC Congresswoman Norton and DC City Council member Jim Graham, Ward 1 as Gray addresses crowd before protest march to Capitol Hill on April 16,2007.
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Vincent Gray, Chair of the DC City Council. "Today, on Emancipation Day, we should be celebrating enactment of the DC VOTING RIGHTS BILL by the CONGRESS. But once again, Those who would nullify us have crafted yet another slow-down trick with the amendment to elimiate our control laws as a ploy to keep us from what is RIGHTFULLY OURS."
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Vincent Gray, Chair of the DC City Council. "Today is an opportunity to send the message that no longer will we be denied and we intend to relentlessly pursue this until JUSTICE IS SERVED."
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DC Youth Mayor, Nicole Newman, applauds Vincent Gray's speech. "To paraphrase Frederick Douglas, he stated that That POWER CONCEDES NOTHING WITHOUT A STRUGGLE. Today, we need to send the message that we will wage the struggle until LIBERTY and JUSTICE is ours."
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Vincent Gray, Chair of the DC City Council. "Let us MARCH today, let us MARCH tomorrow and let us MARCH HOWEVER LONG IT TAKES to WIN the VICTORY that is RIGHTFULLY OURS."
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Mayor Adrian M. Fenty introduces Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.
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Mayor Adrian M. Fenty hands over the microphone to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.
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Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton *
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Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton points her fingers to the White House.
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Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton points her fingers to the White House.
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Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton points her fingers to the White House.
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