Article 5NWYX Washington voting rights march marks Martin Luther King anniversary

Washington voting rights march marks Martin Luther King anniversary

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Ankita Rao in Washington
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Nearly 60 years after the I Have a Dream speech, crowds came to the capital again to protest attacks on minority rights

Theodore Dean marched in Washington DC in 1963, somewhere in the crowd behind Martin Luther King Jr. Exactly 58 years later, he decided to drive 16 hours from Alabama to do it again.

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