Alfred Street Baptist, NAACP Partner on Voter Registration

The NAACP is partnering with in Old Town and the Northern Virginia Coalition of Black Civic Participation on Saturday to register voters as part of the NAACP's "16 on the 16th" mobilization challenge.
 
The national challenge was issued by NAACP Chairman Roslyn Brock, an associate minister of Alfred Street Church.

Church members across the country have pledged to register 16 voters each to honor the memory of the Sept. 15, 1963 bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church. That day, four girls - Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair - were murdered when members of the KKK set off explosives during a church service.
 
"We will focus on communities in Alexandria with vulnerable voting populations - people of color, low-income communities, seniors, and other vulnerable voting groups," stated Rev. Joseph A.C. Smith, Assistant to the Pastor at Alfred Street Baptist Church and coordinator of the church's iPray. iServe. iVote Initiative.