Congressional Black Caucus Rallies Preachers To Tackle Voter-ID Laws

A civil rights activist holds a sign during a march outside the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, March 9, 2012. The march focused on bringing attention to Alabama's newly passed anti-immigration legislation and the state's new voter identification law. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad / The New York Times) Washington - The Rev. Dr. Franklyn Richardson longs for the old days, when all it took was Sunday sermons by African-American ministers to fire up their flocks to get registered and vote in local, state and federal elections.

“In the past, all we had to do was encourage people to register,” said Richardson, the senior pastor of the Grace Baptist Church of Mount Vernon, N.Y., and Port St. Lucie, Fla., and the chair of the Conference of National Black Churches. “Now it’s a different animal.”

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