article_snippet.sent: Durham, North Carolina
article_snippet.sent: Hundreds of miles from Washington, longtime residents of Durham, South Carolina, were beaming with pride.  
article_snippet.sent: In March, several dozen North Carolina women, led by the NAACP, traveled to Washington to meet with several dozen North Carolina women, led by the NAACP senators, Richard Burr and Thom Tillis.
article_snippet.sent: You have embarrassed the state of North Carolina," Allison said after the meeting.
article_snippet.sent: Weeks later, the NAACP organized protests outside the state's two Republican senators offices in Raleigh, Charlotte and Wilmington.