King would travel the United States visiting towns and cities giving speeches and interviews advocating for theright to vote,desegregation,labor rights, and other civil rights of Americans. Dr. Kingcame toSioux Fallson January 12, 1961. He had been asked to make a speech at the Knife and Fo...
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We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. ...
By 1957, many states made it very difficult for Black Americans to vote, a right they had earnt. In the September of that year, President Eisenhower signed into US law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The struggle against segregation and discrimination didn’t end, leading to the rise of Fre...
There was a nearly 100% correlation between opposition to the holiday and a vote for Helms. Today, North Carolina Republicans quote Dr. King while walking in Jesse Helms’ footsteps. Helms would be perfectly at home in Donald Trump’s Republican Party. Like Trump, Helms was a racist. Jim ...
Watch the latest from ITV News - Take a look at the remarkable journey African Americans have made over the decades - from fighting for the right to vote, to fighting for the White House.
It is particularly important to reflect upon why King’s legacy means so much to Jews around the world, as well as in Atlanta.
“So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote, I do not possess myself,” King said in a 1957 speech at the Lincoln Memorial, “Give Us the Ballot – We Will Transform the South.” “I cannot make up my mind – it is made up for me. I cannot live ...