VRRC meets to finalize march plans

Published 10:23 am Thursday, June 30, 2016

Members of the Voters Rights Re-enactment Committee (VRRC) met Friday at Star Light Baptist Church, in Kenbridge, to try to finalize plans for the Saturday, Aug. 13, re-enactment. The event is being held to commemorate the historic Voting Rights March of 1965 to the Lunenburg Courthouse. VRRC members pictured are, from left, front row, Reginald Davis, Ruby Ingram, Luevenia Jackson, Marjorie Spencer, Wanda Morrison, Donna Dagner, Arthur Townsend Sr.; second row, Shirley Lee, Roxanne Logan, Daisy Jones, Mabel Cruse; third row, Yvette Neal, Kenneth Shelton, Toney Hurt, the Rev. C.L. Hobbs Jr., and Lillie Jones; fourth row, Avis Otey, Harold Spencer, Ronald Whitehead, Doris Fowlkes; fifth row, Lester Smithson, the Rev. Ray Smith, Ernest Jones, Edward Pennington and Clyde Spencer.