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NAACP Warns Travelers About Missouri: 'Know Before You Go'

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The NAACP has a message for anyone thinking about traveling to Missouri: Be careful.

At the organization's national conference in Baltimore Wednesday, delegates approved a "travel advisory" warning visitors to take caution — a move that the president of the NAACP's Missouri chapter calls virtually unprecedented.

"It's very unusual," says Nimrod "Rod" Chapel Jr., the Missouri president. "It's the first travel advisory we've issued that I've been aware of."

The resolution — which Chapel says was approved by a vote of delegates with "ringing consensus"— cites a number of actions taken in the state recently, including the passage of H.B. 43, which weakens the state's anti-discrimination law.…

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