"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... 2 KB (215 words) - 13:33, 3 June 2023 |
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (category May 1957 events in the United States) Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It was the occasion for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Give Us the Ballot speech. The demonstration was planned to mark the third... 8 KB (745 words) - 20:39, 12 September 2023 |
 | was initially reluctant, but her mother felt strongly that the move was needed not only to give her own daughter a better education, but to "take this step... 27 KB (2,877 words) - 06:09, 6 April 2024 |
States portal Law portal Politics portal Ballot access Civil Rights Act of 1960 Felony disenfranchisement in the United States List of suffragists and suffragettes... 43 KB (4,490 words) - 19:32, 8 March 2024 |
Washington, D.C., at which Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "Give Us the Ballot" speech, is at the time the largest nonviolent demonstration for civil rights... 65 KB (7,591 words) - 18:58, 17 April 2024 |
 | William Cullen Bryant (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Medical College. King, Martin Luther Jr. (17 May 1957). "'Give Us the Ballot', Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom". William Cullen Bryant: An... 25 KB (3,173 words) - 22:59, 27 March 2024 |
refused to give up her seat and was arrested. (Her arrest was the catalyst for the black community's calling the boycott.) By the time of the film, the bus was... 9 KB (1,069 words) - 13:55, 31 March 2024 |
 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 (redirect from The Voting Rights Act) in the 2008 Election: Implications for the Future of the Voting Rights Act". Harvard Law Review. 123 (6): 1385–1436. Berman, Ari (2015). Give Us the Ballot:... 173 KB (19,972 words) - 01:19, 29 March 2024 |
 | Malcolm X (redirect from Malcolm the Tenth) debate on the Civil Rights bill at the U.S. Capitol building. In April, Malcolm X gave a speech titled "The Ballot or the Bullet", in which he advised African... 170 KB (18,387 words) - 06:42, 14 April 2024 |
non-citizen US nationals to vote. Jamie Raskin, an American law professor and politician, has argued that the blanket exclusion of noncitizens from the ballot is... 57 KB (6,439 words) - 16:10, 5 March 2024 |
 | Little Rock Nine (category School segregation in the United States) not give Black students the option of attending Hall. This new Blossom Plan did not sit well with the NAACP and, after failed negotiations with the school... 41 KB (4,792 words) - 22:22, 9 April 2024 |
 | Kumbaya (category Songs of the civil rights movement) people sit around a campfire toasting marshmallows, singing 'Kumbaya' and giving the nod to one of their competitors." Businessman and political candidate... 21 KB (1,885 words) - 22:55, 5 December 2023 |
Voting in Guam (section U.S. citizenship) U.S. citizens to register to vote and to vote by absentee ballot in federal elections. The act is Public Law 99-410 and was signed into law by President... 5 KB (714 words) - 20:58, 10 October 2023 |
 | List of speeches (section Before the 1st century) reception in the Polish embassy in Moscow. 1957: Longest Speech in the United Nations by Indian delegate V.K. Krishna Menon. 1957: Give Us the Ballot by Martin... 39 KB (4,965 words) - 00:29, 30 March 2024 |
 | Harry Belafonte (category Recipients of the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo) 2013. "Politics-US: Belafonte on Thinking Outside the Ballot Box". Ipsnews.net. Archived from the original on February 20, 2012. Retrieved November 4... 101 KB (9,516 words) - 18:02, 15 April 2024 |
 | Rosa Parks (category Civil rights protests in the United States) African-American US Representative. She was also active in the black Power movement and the support of political prisoners in the US. After retirement... 131 KB (13,100 words) - 05:29, 8 April 2024 |
 | March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (redirect from The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom) peacefully, I knew that the march was going to be a mockery, that they were giving us something again. Marcher Beverly Alston thought that the day had its greatest... 101 KB (12,294 words) - 19:22, 14 April 2024 |
 | Martin Luther King Jr. (redirect from A Comparison of the Conception of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman) give up her seat on a city bus. The two incidents led to the Montgomery bus boycott, which was urged and planned by Edgar Nixon and led by King. The other... 280 KB (28,154 words) - 01:30, 17 April 2024 |
Montgomery bus boycott (category Civil rights protests in the United States) Morgan v. Virginia, the earlier Baton Rouge bus boycott, and the arrest of Claudette Colvin, among others, for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery... 55 KB (6,205 words) - 19:38, 23 March 2024 |
 | Rights Movement in the U.S. Retrieved December 6, 2021. Inbody, Donald S. (January 26, 2016). The Soldier Vote: War, Politics, and the Ballot in America. Springer... 135 KB (15,464 words) - 02:02, 6 April 2024 |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 (redirect from U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964) 1964 bill in his Report to the American People on Civil Rights on June 11, 1963. He sought legislation "giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities... 98 KB (10,137 words) - 16:35, 16 April 2024 |
 | Frederick Douglass (category African-American candidates for Vice President of the United States) The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box... 192 KB (20,379 words) - 14:30, 17 April 2024 |
 | Civil rights movement (redirect from US civil rights movement) including administrative representation across all U.S. Government departments and greater access to the ballot box. From squaring off against Governor George... 295 KB (34,006 words) - 15:48, 9 April 2024 |
gave his speech, I've Been to the Mountaintop, where he declared, "We've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic... 20 KB (2,503 words) - 12:44, 25 January 2024 |
Ballot access are rules and procedures regulating the right to candidacy, the conditions under which a candidate, political party, or ballot measure is... 65 KB (8,457 words) - 19:20, 20 March 2024 |
NAACP (redirect from National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) get-out-the-vote offensive in the 2000 U.S. presidential elections. 10.5 million African Americans cast their ballots in the election; this was one million... 85 KB (9,043 words) - 00:15, 11 April 2024 |
 | Medgar Evers (category 1963 murders in the United States) rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. He was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith. Evers, a decorated U.S. Army combat veteran... 49 KB (4,793 words) - 15:36, 5 April 2024 |
We Shall Overcome (category Songs of the civil rights movement) favorite theologian. Compare the transcript of this 1957 speech given in Washington, D.C."Give Us the Ballot". Address Delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for... 48 KB (6,281 words) - 07:59, 2 February 2024 |
 | Dick Gregory (category Pages using embedded infobox templates with the title parameter) B5. "Spock, Gregory to Be on Ballot". Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian. March 6, 1968. p. 10. "Our Campaigns - US President National Vote Race -... 47 KB (4,955 words) - 04:06, 12 April 2024 |
enacts the legislation. As a goodwill gesture, Jackie Kennedy gives Cecil one of the former president's neckties. Louis participates in the 1965 Selma... 44 KB (3,681 words) - 13:54, 28 March 2024 |