Martin Luther King Jr. would be stunned by the rollback of voting rights in this country and efforts to suppress the teaching of the struggle for civil rights, according to his eldest son, Martin L…
, Jocelyn Benson, Ralph G. Neas and Bradley Tusk attend the “Featured Session: Voting is a Civil Rights Issue” at SXSW on March 13, 2023 in Austin, Texas.King and his wife Arndrea Waters King were among the panelists at an SXSW Featured Session titled Voting is a Civil Rights Issue.
“It’s kind of sad that my dad and his team and others — John Lewis, Amelia Boynton, Josea Williams, just to name a few — knocked down barriers that would give us the right to vote, by law, through the Voting Rights Act,” King said. “And yet, 55 years after dad’s death — this is the 55th anniversary of him being assassinated in April — there are people who are literally putting in place provisions to make it harder for people to vote.
Schoolchildren hold signs against the concept of critical race theory as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the crowd before signing HB 7, also dubbed the “Stop Woke Act,” at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, on April 22, 2022.
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