“We welcome you here to Rocky Mount where the Voting Rights Act that was signed in 1965 created this area as a covered district – one of the 40 counties in North Carolina that was covered by the preclearance requirement of Section IV,” Dr. Barber said. “Now no NC counties are covered by the full federal voter protections, and look what happened: extremists passed the worst voter suppression law we have seen since Jim Crow. North Carolina is the testing ground. This is today’s Selma.”