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Civil Rights: The Vote

Martin Luther King Demands the Ballot

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.

In this photo: Martin Luther King Jr

Photo: Paul Schutzer/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Mar 17, 1957
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