"But I think you can contribute a great deal by getting your leaders and you, yourself, taking very simple examples of discrimination; where a man’s got to memorize a Longfellow, or whether he’s got to quote the first 10 Amendments, or he’s got to tell you what Amendment 15, 16 and 17 is and then ask them if they know and show what happens and some people don’t have to do that, but when a Negro comes in he’s got to do it, and if we can just repeat and repeat and repeat."
Mary Jo Murphy in The New York Times prints a transcript of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Lyndon Johnson plotting how to promote the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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