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History > USA > Civil rights
Martin Luther King 1929-1968
May 17, 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom Washington, DC
“Give Us the Ballot” Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photographer: Paul Schutzer
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Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photographer: Paul Schutzer
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[ Martin Luther King ] Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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[ Martin Luther King ] Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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[ Martin Luther King ] Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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[ Martin Luther King ] Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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[ Martin Luther King ] Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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[ Martin Luther King ] Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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[ Martin Luther King ] Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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[ Martin Luther King ] Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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Photograph: George Tames The New York Times
A Pilgrimage for Equal Rights Thousands came, from 30 states, to the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on May 17, 1957.
They wanted more, and faster, action on civil rights issues and to look back and forward on the third anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
In a speech to the crowd that day, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described that landmark Supreme Court decision as “a joyous daybreak to end the long night of enforced segregation.”
But even then, it was clear that segregation in schools would outlast its historic defeat in the courts, in part because efforts to put the ruling in effect were weak or nonexistent.
“The Supreme Court’s decision is not self-enforcing,” said an article in The New York Times Magazine a few weeks after the pilgrimage, “and instead of spelling the end of an era of civil-rights litigation, it has marked the beginning of a new and even more bitter phase.”
The photograph above seemed to capture perfectly the mood of the time: No one in the picture looks satisfied or triumphant.
But our article that day relied only on words. No photographs were included. NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history/
Right: Harry Belafonte
Prayer Pilgrimage
Date taken: 1957
Photograph: Paul Schutzer
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May 17, 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom Washington, DC
“Give Us the Ballot” Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
On 17 May 1957, nearly 25,000 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for a Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, featuring three hours of spirituals, songs, and speeches that urged the federal government to fulfill the three-year-old Brown v. Board of Education decision.
The last speech of the day was reserved for Martin Luther King’s ‘‘Give Us the Ballot'' oration, which captured public attention and placed him in the national spotlight as a major leader of the civil rights movement.
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/
https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Us_the_Ballot
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history/
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/
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