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Martin Luther King Jr.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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King's 1957 "Give Us the Ballot" speech and the Selma campaign of 1965 tied the civil rights movement directly to voting. The marches to Montgomery built the public pressure that carried the Voting Rights Act through Congress that summer.
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