Voting Rights

Give Us The Ballot

Monday, January 17, 2011
By Dr. Martin Luther King

The following passage is excerpted from a speech that Dr. King delivered  on the steps of  the Lincoln Memorial at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom May 17, 1957 marking the third anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and eight years before the enactment of the Voting Rights Act. Three years ago the Supreme... »