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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jennifer Sinco Kelleher

Hawaii displays historic photos of Martin Luther King Jr. wearing flower lei during Selma march

Voting Rights Hawaii Exhibit - (Jeannine Herron/Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries via AP)

Photographs of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. adorned with flower lei from Hawaii residents who traveled to Selma, Alabama, to join him on a pivotal Civil Rights march went on public display Tuesday in the state Capitol in Honolulu.

The Selma-to-Montgomery marches galvanized passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which did away with most barriers such as poll taxes and other forms of voter discrimination targeting Black Americans in the Deep South.

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