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Saying Gov. George Allen is trying to “send us back to slavery,” black leaders demanded his resignation Thursday for proclaiming April as Confederate History and Heritage Month.
“We’re not asking for an apology because only a person who had sensitivity would know that that was an improper thing to do in the first place,” Linda Byrd-Harden, executive director of Virginia’s NAACP, said inside the Capitol where the Confederate Congress once was convened.
Allen, a Republican in the last year of a four-year term, had urged residents Wednesday to spend April saluting the state’s “four-year struggle for independence” during the Civil War.
Allen could not be reached for comment Thursday.
