ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, September 27, 1996 TAG: 9609270085
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DAN CASEY
Convinced that area federal judges are turning a deaf ear to civil rights lawsuits, the Roanoke chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference will stage a demonstration in Washington, D.C., next month.
The Oct. 8 march will take place outside the U.S. Supreme Court, said Perneller Chubb-Wilson, chapter president.
On Sept. 12, Chubb-Wilson wrote President Clinton asking the federal government to stop hearing civil rights cases in the Western District Court of Virginia. It also asks for a federal investigation of the court.
"Disparity of justice is the norm in the Western District Court of Virginia," Chubb-Wilson wrote the president, "unless you are one of the 'good old boys,' their families, or their friends. Justice is not served on a fair basis."
A bus the SCLC has chartered to carry protesters will leave from the Hills department store parking lot on Hershberger Road at 5 a.m. It will depart Washington at 4 p.m. The cost is $20 a person.
For more information, call Chubb-Wilson at 344-7064 or 345-4183, or call SCLC Vice President Lenord Hines at 345-3639.
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