NEWBURGH – The riot at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6 and the divisions caused by extremist groups have turned the civil rights movement of the 1960s 360 degrees around, according to Ray Harvey, president of the Newburgh-Highland Falls NAACP.
Harvey reflected on the national holiday marking the birth of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The climate that we are in with domestic terrorists, he would be very disappointed in the progress that we made; it seems like we are erasing the whole progress of the civil rights movement and just all of the fighting and coming together that was accomplished for so long,” he said.
Harvey said incoming President Biden and Vice President Harris will not have an easy time of it attempting to turn things around. They will need help, he said. “Even Dr. King had help,” Harvey said.
