A civil rights group staging a non-violent protest brought the Wake County school board meeting to a halt Tuesday afternoon when it took over the board’s meeting room, standing together with interlocked arms and singing “We Shall Overcome.”
“Today, we register our legitimate discontent … We are willing to break a lesser law and accept the punishment to protect a larger law,” Rev. William Barber, president of the state chapter of the NAACP, said. “We are here to stay.”
