ATLANTA — Civil rights leaders called Tuesday for a march on the Justice Department and an economic boycott next month because they believe the federal government has been sluggish in dealing with hate crimes.
They called for Americans not to spend any money Nov. 2 as an economic boycott. And they announced initial plans for a Nov. 16 march on Justice Department headquarters in Washington.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III and other activists outside the federal courthouse in Atlanta cited the uproar in Jena, La., surrounding three white teens accused of hanging nooses outside a school and the six black teens charged in the beating of a white student. They believe the federal government should prosecute the noose hanging as a hate crime.
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