"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 speech at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom gathering at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on May 17.[1]
In the key section of the speech King listed some of the changes that would result by African Americans regaining voting rights:
It is one of King's major speeches.
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