Martin Luther King’s family decried the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, the overturning of Roe and gun violence in the US
Yolanda Renee King, 15, is the only grandchild of the civil rights leader, who wasin April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. Addressing Saturday’s march, she said that if she could talk to her grandfather today, she would apologise.
King’s family appeared on CNN a day before the actual 60th anniversary of the first march of Washington. The event, held on 28 August 1963 in front of a massive crowd of some 250,000 people at the Lincoln memorial, was one of the crowning glories of the civil rights movement and helped propel vital voting rights legislation.
Some of those original organisers spoke at Saturday’s five-hour event, which was put together by King’s group, the Drum Major Institute, and the National Action Network, led by the Rev Al Sharpton. Andrew Young, a member of King’s inner circle who helped convene the original march and went on to become a UN ambassador and mayor of Atlanta, was among dozens of speakers.voter suppression measures
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