Yesterday morning, [Johnny Hunter] and other pro-life black pastors, including New Jersey's Rev. Clenard Childress, began a march from Newark to the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, hoping to draw attention to the heavy toll abortion is taking on African-Americans.

March spokesman Damon Owens says the organizers seek to clue in African-Americans on the racist, genocidal roots of Planned Parenthood and the modern abortion-rights movement.

Hunter, director of the Life Education and Resource Network (www.learninc.org), is from Alabama, and marched for civil rights there during the Jim Crow era. He considers working to save unborn black lives a continuation of that work because "civil rights don't mean anything without the right to life." Send e-mail to Dreher@nypost.com