An exhibit in Capital City Museum is dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., featuring blown up pictures that capture the day Dr. King led thousands in a march on Frankfort.
give people more opportunities to vote providing for early voting and making federal election day a holiday, voters of color and minority voters and people who are lower income have sometimes trouble making it to vote on a day when they re at work. so all of those things are things that mitch mcconnell and republican colleagues blocked and part of the reason he s coming under so much fire for a misstatement that took him quite awhile to clarify. mcconnell went on to defend himself saying this. i was there for martin luther king s i have a dream speech in the audience. when i was a student at u of l, i helped organize the march on frankfort for state accommodations law. thanks to my role model, senator john sherman cooper, i was actually there when president johnson signed the voting rights