MY SAY: A GREAT DAY FOR AMERICANS
Martin Luther King led a movement that reversed an unspeakable injustice against fellow Americans who were patriotic citizens and who served with honor in World War 11 and the Korean War.
On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where American Blacks and White citizens had been campaigning for voting rights. King told the assembled crowd: ‘‘There never was a moment in American history more honorable and more inspiring than the pilgrimage of clergymen and laymen of every race and faith pouring into Selma to face danger at the side of its embattled Negroes’’
On 6 August, in the presence of King and other civil rights leaders, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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