Martin Luther King III calls for protecting voting rights while speaking at Dartmouth College
Martin Luther King III calls for protecting voting rights while speaking at Dartmouth College
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Martin Luther King III calls for protecting voting rights while speaking at Dartmouth College
Martin Luther King III was in the Granite State on Monday. He spoke at Dartmouth College's 2022 Social Justice Awards ceremony.Monday’s event was 60 years to the day when his father Martin Luther King Junior spoke on campus and called for federal civil and voting rights protections for Black Americans.King III said that fight continues today."We need to elect senators and House members who support voting rights and who will defend democracy instead of trying to kill it,” King III said. King also asked for a moment of silence to honor the victims of the deadly Buffalo supermarket shooting.
HANOVER, N.H. —
Martin Luther King III was in the Granite State on Monday.
He spoke at Dartmouth College's 2022 Social Justice Awards ceremony.
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Monday’s event was 60 years to the day when his father Martin Luther King Junior spoke on campus and called for federal civil and voting rights protections for Black Americans.
King III said that fight continues today.
"We need to elect senators and House members who support voting rights and who will defend democracy instead of trying to kill it,” King III said.
King also asked for a moment of silence to honor the victims of the deadly Buffalo supermarket shooting.