\nGreg Gullberg wrote for WCTV yesterday,\n\nProtesters Descend On Quitman For Weekend Long Rally:\nProtesters gear up to rally against what they call voter intimidation revolving around the “Quitman 12”.<\/a>\n \nThey gathered at area restaurants like the Wiregrass Restaurant &\nBar Friday night. They’re gearing up for a weekend long rally\nagainst what they call voter intimidation.\n \nThe “Quitman 12” is the focus of the march Saturday at the Quitman\ncourt house. The 12 include three Brooks County School Board\nmembers, along with nine other defendants who were indicted for\ncharges of voter fraud.\n<\/blockquote>\nWCTV quoted George Rhynes, and also:\n \n“To me, being a small city like this, it’s the first time something\nlike this is being held in Quitman. It’s an honor being a part of\nthis. It’s pretty much history in the making,” Hamilton tells\nGullberg.\n \nAppearances are expected by Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, Rep. Tyrone\nBrooks and many more. Events start Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. The\nmarch starts at 3:00 p.m.\n<\/blockquote>\nI agree with her and with George, that it’s a historic event.\n \n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I suppose it is a week-long protest, especially the 3PM march today, but it’s also a meeting of a legislative caucus. Ah, TV, got to be brief! Greg Gullberg wrote for WCTV yesterday, Protesters Descend On Quitman For Weekend Long Rally: Protesters gear up to rally against what they call voter intimidation revolving around the […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,40,15,49,70,1524,1525,8,2,19,20,22,1526,177],"tags":[8797,1587,1872,8705,1484,2825,8832,407,8701,3006,3005,1586,8834,8860,3004,1425,3003,8748],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-education","category-elections","category-ethics","category-gabeo","category-gabeo-2012-02-25","category-georgia","category-government","category-history","category-law","category-politics","category-quitman-10","category-wctv","tag-bostongbr","tag-brooks-county","tag-civil-rights","tag-education","tag-election","tag-floyd-rose","tag-gabeo","tag-george-boston-rhynes","tag-georgia","tag-historic","tag-kvci","tag-quitman","tag-quitman-10","tag-sclc","tag-suppression","tag-voting","tag-voting-rights","tag-wctv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-hk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
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<\/a>\nHundreds of protesters from across Georgia descend on Quitman in\nBrooks County.\n\nLatoya Hamilton is a Quitman resident and also a Protester.\n