voting rights

The August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom gathered more than a quarter of a million people to draw attention to and protest segregation, lack of voting rights, unemployment, institutionalized racism, and other civil inequities that African-Americans still faced 100 years after

Once the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 was passed, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr began working to register African-Americans in the South, since this part of the country had suppressive voting laws.