|
 NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson is planning a march this spring to protest post-hurricane policies he fears will marginalize the black community, the civil rights leader said Monday as he toured one of the city's hardest-hit areas.
The march on April 1 will cross the Crescent City Connection, a major Mississippi River bridge that was blocked to keep people trying to flee flooded New Orleans from going into cities that weren't as heavily damaged, Jackson said. Officials across the river in Gretna said they blocked the bridge because they had no more room for evacuees.
As he squatted in a patch of mud, Jackson called the barge that came to rest on debris in the lower Ninth Ward a symbol of the government's neglect of many of the storm's hardest-hit victims.
|