COLUMBIA, S.C. ? Hundreds of people are marching outside the South Carolina capitol to honor the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and protest the state's voter identification law.
The U.S. Justice Department has rejected the law. The Obama administration said it didn't pass muster under the 1965 voting rights act, which outlawed discriminatory practices that prevented blacks from voting.
On Monday, marchers outside the statehouse in Columbia carried signs that equated the voter ID law with a poll tax. The law had so far been the focus of the day.
William Barber is the president of the North Carolina NAACP. He said this was a critical time to make sure hard-fought voting rights are not lost. He told those at the rally that they "are here to stand up, not to back down."
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