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The 1957 State of the Union Address was given by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, on Thursday, January 10, 1957, to the 85th United States Congress in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. [3] It was Eisenhower's sixth State of the Union Address.
Give Us the Ballot" is a 1957 speech by Martin Luther King Jr. advocating voting rights for African Americans in the United States. King delivered the speech at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom gathering at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. , on May 17.
King's speech is referred to as Give Us the Ballot, as he repeated this demand as a litany, followed by a listing of changes that would result in African Americans regaining voting rights: Give us the ballot and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights ...
On August 28, 1957, Strom Thurmond, then a Democratic United States senator from South Carolina, began a filibuster intended to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The filibuster—an extended speech designed to stall legislation—began at 8:54 p.m. [a] and lasted until 9:12 p.m. the following day, a duration of 24 hours and ...
Disneyland in Anaheim, California, celebrates its 60th anniversary on Friday.. The success of the original park, which opened July 17, 1955, sparked the 1971 opening of Walt Disney World in ...
Canceling the speech is “disappointing,” he said, but “tradition must give way to safety.” The Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, condemned the ...
When we visited Joe Schmidt in 2017, he still fondly remembered his 1957 Detroit Lions. He was the captain and revealed what made the team great.
The speech was depicted in the opening of the 1991 film JFK. [ 13 ] In 2025, President Joe Biden invoked the "military-industrial complex" phrasing from Eisehower's address in his own farewell address, saying that he was "concerned about the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country."