WBRC: “The national leader of the Nation of Islam spoke on behalf of keeping the Voting Rights Act intact at Birmingham’s historic Kelly Ingram Park on Friday. . . . ‘Farrakhan, Farrakhan, Farrakhan,’ chanted through the park.”

The Tribune: “Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan spoke on the Capitol steps and at rallies earlier Friday in Birmingham, Selma and in Shelby County. Farrakhan said participating in the rallies has ‘been a very powerful experience.’  He was introduced by a number of state and regional black leaders.”

WNCF: “Joining Farrakhan were state leaders and senators, but protestors wanted their voices heard too.  Farrakhan arrived in Montgomery surrounded by his own protective guards, to speak about section five of the Voting Rights Act and the state of the black community. ‘We must fight for the section five in the voting rights legislation because they don’t have the will to allow you to continue to vote uncontested,’ he says.  Farrakhan was invited by state Senator Hank Sanders and Mayor of Tuskegee Johnny Ford, who both say Farrakhan was instrumental in bringing awareness to the Voting Rights Act.”

Fox:“‘Laws passed for the Negroes’ benefit are so widely unenforced that it’s a mockery to call them laws,; Farrakhan said. ‘Would now be free to keep us going back and forth to court. Litigating, litigating and litigating. Hell with litigation,’ Farrakhan said.”

Shelby County Reporter: “Farrakhan joined prominent Alabama politicians such as Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford and state Sen. Hank Sanders, D-Selma, on a June 14 pilgrimage to support the two sections, going from Birmingham to Montgomery with stops in Columbiana and Selma along the way.  ‘There is no advancement that white Americans made that we were not a part of,’ Farrakhan said to cheers and whistles. ‘We died in every battle that America has had.’  Boynton said she supports Farrakhan wholeheartedly. ‘Every time I see him, he speaks the truth,’ she said. ‘That’s why people don’t like him, because he speaks the truth.'”