WASHINGTON, Jan 17 — Descendants of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and their supporters began marching on Washington on Monday to urge President Joe Biden’s Democrats to pass a billprotecting voting rights.Martin Luther King Jr. Day DC Peace Walk, the King family and more than 100 national and local civil rights groups planned to march across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge into downtown Washington.
“You were successful with infrastructure, which was a great thing,” King said to a crowd of hundreds, “but we need you to use that same energy to ensure that all Americans have the unencumbered right to vote.” Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer has said the chamber would take up the bill on Tuesday, a delay from his earlier plan to hold a procedural vote on the bill by Monday, the federal holiday honoring King.
“Black voters risked everything – including their own health at the height of the pandemic – to vote Biden and Senate Democrats into office,” “I wish it was drawn earlier, but I think a line in the sand has been drawn and you’re either with us or against us,” Townsend said.
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