Voting rights take center stage on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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Martin Luther King III, along with other civil rights leaders, marched in Washington, D.C., to demand the Senate move on voting rights reform legislation.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.

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