Rev. William Barber Jr., former president of the NAACP North Carolina chapter, says he was removed from an AMC theater for bringing a chair for his disability.

Rev. Dr. William Barber II was escorted out of a movie theater in Greenville, NC, on Tuesday afternoon after he was not allowed to use his own chair to watch a movie.

Bishop William J. Barber II, who suffers from a chronic and painful form of arthritis, was escorted out of an AMC movie theater after he tried to use his own chair in the accessible section.

There's a neatly folded stack of newspapers — some of them yellowed with time — inside a glass case at a tiny three-chair barbershop in College View. Those clippings — the obituaries of Gary ...

Barber previously served as president of the North Carolina NAACP, leading protests over voter access at the Statehouse that got him and more than 1,000 people arrested for civil disobedience.