BALTIMORE (AP) --  Women from the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP are traveling to the organization's national headquarters in Baltimore to demand the removal of a member who they say harassed a former employee.

Ana Ilarraza-Blackburn says the group will leave Greensboro on Thursday and pick up members in Durham before going to the national headquarters to demand the removal of the Rev. Curtis Gatewood.

A former employee of the state chapter, Jazmyne Childs, said at a news conference Wednesday that Gatewood sexually harassed her. Gatewood says he never sexually harassed anyone.

Ilarraza-Blackburn is the Latino immigrant liaison for the state chapter. She says no one at the national office responded to the women's letters so they're going to Baltimore.

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