Civil Right No. 1: The Right to Vote
---Martin Luther, King, Jr.
"Few people in America realize the seriousness
of the burden imposed upon our democracy by the
disenfranchisement of the Negroes in the
Deep South. In Mississippi , only
about twenty-six thousand out of a voting age
population of 450,000 Negroes has been allowed to register."
---Martin Luther King, Jr. (p. 182)
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"Delays feed the dangers that beset Negroes. Every day means more murder
and brutality, more suffering from inferior education, more dreary hours in the
long night of economic exploitation and more of the deadly despair brought
on by personal humiliation"- Martin Luther King, Jr. ( p.186)
The above are excerpts from the chapter, "Civil Right No. 1:
The Right to Vote" in the book A Testament of Hope: The Essential
Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr , Edited by
James Melvin Washington Copyright 1986 by Coretta Scott King.
The article, "Civil Right No. 1: The Right to Vote" appeared in the
Sunday 14, March 1965 issue of The New York Times
President Johnson delivered his historic address on his pending
Voting Rights Bill the next day." (p. 182) |
