>> well, first i'd like to say that i don't think the peace prize was given to me personally and i don't accept it as a personal honor. i think it is rather a tribute to the wise restraint of discipline and dignity with which negroes and white persons of good will have carried out the whole struggle for civil rights. >> by the end of 1964, dr. king is aware that the one major southern civil rights challenge that had not been dealt with in the 1964 civil rights act was voter registration. >> bewildering hodgepodge of election laws from state to state prevents many from voting. boss-controlled political machines disenfranchise others by downright fraud. a negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong or the hour is late or the official in charge is absent.