Student leaders mark anniversary of Voting Rights Act

-Source-The Baltimore Sun- Student leaders involved in the national March For Our Lives anti-gun violence movement came to Baltimore for a meeting Monday at the NAACP headquarters timed to coincide with the 53rd anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Conducting a town hall" discussion live on Facebook Twitter and Instagram the students encouraged voter registration and digital organizing and called on young people to raise their voices in the coming election. About 25 students from Parkland Fla. were among those taking part in the event as well as some youth leaders from Chicago New York and Milwaukee. March For Our Lives is a student-led movement to curb gun violence following the mass shooting in February at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Fla. where a gunman killed 17 people. About six weeks after the shooting students organized a rally in Washington attended by hundreds of thousands of demonstrators demanding action against gun violence. After the rally students organized a Road to Change" tour involving town hall meetings and voter registration events to get more people to vote. They have visited more than 60 cities in more than 20 states including Maryland California Connecticut Florida Iowa South Carolina and Texas.