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Civil Rights: The Vote
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Martin Luther King Demands the Ballot
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Give Us the Ballot" address on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1957. Blacks were impatient at the slow progress on civil rights after 1954's Brown v. Board of Education decision.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Photo: Paul Schutzer/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Mar 17, 1957
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