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''Give Us the Ballot -- We Will Transform the South,'' Address on 5/17/57

https://okra.stanford.edu/link/document720000-004
Author
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Place Written
New York, N.Y.
Document Date
1972
Genre
Published speech
Document Type
Document
Type of Writing
Printed -- published
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Author
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Author Dates
1929-1968
Document ID
720000-004
Document Date
1972
Type of Writing
Printed -- published
Document Type
Document
Status
Undecided
Place Written
New York, N.Y.
Genre
Published speech
Document Length
6 pp.
Published In
Philip S. Foner, ed. The Voice of Black America, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972, pp. 919-924.
Dates
5/17/1957
6/2/1957
5/17/1954
Names
George, Walter F. (Walter Franklin)
Johnson, James Weldon
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)
Organizations
United States. Supreme Court
United States. Congress.
Democratic Party
Republican Party
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Places
Washington, D.C.
Topics
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas
Voter registration
Plessy vs Ferguson, 1896
Segregation--law and legislation
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Public Speaking
Communism
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Publications - Reprints
Other Topics
The Worker
Micah 6:8
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Copy Location (1)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
9/16/1999 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
09/22/1999
Date Updated
5/20/2010 12:34:41 PM
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