Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

'Give Us The Ballot'
King's speech that day was a hypnotic oration on the sacred rights and powers of the vote. "Give us the ballot," he said, "and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights." A harbinger of the "I Have a Dream" speech that King would deliver from the same spot six years later, it catapulted him to national visibility.

• Martin Luther King 1929 - 1968
• Photos: MLK at Home