King&#39;s widow turns focus on voting rights at NAACP event in Maine
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The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. said the right to vote should be open to everyone in a democracy, including those who have been convicted of crimes.
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President Bush met Tuesday at the White House with the outgoing head of the NAACP, the first meeting of his presidency with the nation&#39;s oldest civil rights group.
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Americans inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. took part in marches and rallies around the country Monday, drawing from the late civil rights leader's message to call for an end to the Iraq war, advocate affirmative action and speak out for gay rights.
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Sen. John Kerry, in some of his most pointed public comments yet about the presidential election, invoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy on Monday as he criticized President Bush and decried reports of voter disenfranchisement.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards honored the legacy of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King on Monday and said his work paved the way for this year's precedent-shattering White House candidacies.
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama seek to set aside a row over civil rights in their fight for the US Democratic ticket.
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Rep. John Lewis' first march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama helped change civil rights laws. Next month will be his seventh march aiming to change the lawmakers.
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Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee will attend the Martin Luther King Day memorial service in Atlanta on Monday.
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Julia Montgomery used the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to cast an early primary ballot because it was convenient, she said Â but also to honor the slain civil rights leader's legacy.
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SELMA, Alabama  - Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined by former President Bill Clinton, descended on a hallowed shrine of the civil rights movement on Sunday to court black voters who could help pick the party's 2008 presidential nominee.
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Christopher Reeve's widow, Dana Reeve, is going to President Bush's State of the Union address in hopes of hearing him propose additional support for medical research.
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Hundreds of people attend the burial in Texas of the wife of former US President Lyndon B Johnson.
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The contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is dividing civil rights movement veterans as well as older and younger African-American voters
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Race became a focus of the Democratic presidential campaign on Sunday with Hillary Clinton accusing rival Barack Obama of distorting remarks she made last week about the 1960s U.S. civil rights movement.
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She spent much of her Republican National Convention speech defending her husband's war on terrorism, and has taken on a major role in her husband's re-election campaign. Yet, many women delegates said they still think of Laura Bush as a wife and mother &#151; not a politician.
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JENA, Louisiana  - About 25 white supremacists marched through this central Louisiana town on Monday in a white power rally on the U.S. national holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
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More than 2,000 people crowded Ebenezer Baptist Church on Monday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s commitment to peace and equality and note the importance of his legacy in this election year