Martin Luther King Jr. Day: March in Washington for the right to vote in the US
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For: EFE Updated 17 Jan 2022, : 54 pm EST
Hundreds of people, many of them young, marched through Washington DC on Monday to demand that the right to vote in the US, on the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr Day. (1929-1968).
“Make the Senate hear them, make the White House hear who they are
“, cried the granddaughter of 13 years of Luther King, Yolanda Renee King, from the stage set up for the occasion next to the capital’s baseball stadium, before starting the march.
Protesters and the family of Luther King came together to protest Republican attempts to restrict voting in the states in which they govern, which mainly affect minorities and with the legislative elections next November in sight.
Yolanda, along with her parents Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King, led the demonstration who crossed the Frederick Douglas Memorial Bridge (1818-1895), African-American writer, abolitionist, and social reformer , whose writings helped fuel the anti-slavery movement.