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The Economic Times
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Washington march echoes Martin Luther King Jr. in new voting rights fight

Washington: More than six decades after Martin Luther King Jr. stood on ​the steps of the Lincoln Memorial ​and declared his dream for a more just America, thousands are expected ​to march in Washington on Friday, as a new generation of civil rights leaders warns that the very rights King fought and died for are once again under siege.

Civil rights leaders will retrace his path through the ‌capital, invoking the ⁠same ⁠demands King made from the same steps of the Lincoln Memorial two and a half generations ago: that the ​fight for equality remains unfinished.

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