• "Give Us the Ballot" is a 1957 speech by Martin Luther King Jr. advocating voting rights for African Americans in the United States. King delivered the...
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  • Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (category May 1957 events in the United States)
    Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It was the occasion for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Give Us the Ballot speech. The demonstration was planned to mark the third...
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    was initially reluctant, but her mother felt strongly that the move was needed not only to give her own daughter a better education, but to "take this step...
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  • States portal Law portal Politics portal Ballot access Civil Rights Act of 1960 Felony disenfranchisement in the United States List of suffragists and suffragettes...
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    William Cullen Bryant (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    Medical College. King, Martin Luther Jr. (17 May 1957). "'Give Us the Ballot', Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom". William Cullen Bryant: An...
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  • Washington, D.C., at which Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "Give Us the Ballot" speech, is at the time the largest nonviolent demonstration for civil rights...
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    for the march were so burdensome that the speech was not a priority for us" and that, "on the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 27, (12 hours before the march)...
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    Rosa Parks (category Civil rights protests in the United States)
    African-American US Representative. She was also active in the Black Power movement and the support of political prisoners in the US. After retirement...
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    Harry Belafonte (category Recipients of the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo)
    2013. "Politics-US: Belafonte on Thinking Outside the Ballot Box". Ipsnews.net. Archived from the original on February 20, 2012. Retrieved November 4...
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    Medgar Evers (category 1963 murders in the United States)
    rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. He was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith. Evers, a decorated U.S. Army combat veteran...
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