By Doug Walker
Rome News-Tribune
October 22,2010
It was a historic evening.
America’s largest and oldest civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), hosted a political forum in Rome, with cooperation from one of the youngest political movements in the country, the Tea Party.
And the event went off without a hitch.
The conservative group canceled a forum of its own so citizens of Rome and Floyd County could cross political lines to hear from candidates for state and local office.
Rome’s Civic Center on Jackson Hill was packed with 200 or more people, and many were almost as interested in seeing how the two organizations would blend as they were in hearing from the candidates.
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