Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I have a dream” speech at the March on Washington. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act passed the year after King’s speech and followed that with the Voting Rights Act. The United States, however, has failed to address the March’s goals for economic opportunity and equality, ten demands in civil rights legislation, public school desegregation, voting rights, job training, and an increased minimum wage.

• Congressional comprehensive and effective civil rights legislation without compromise or filibuster-to guarantee all Americans access to all public accommodations, decent housing, adequate and integrated education, and the right to vote.
• Withholding of federal funds from all programs in which discrimination exists.
• Desegregation of all school districts in 1963.
• Enforcement of the fourteenth Amendment, reducing Congressional representation of states where citizens are disfranchised.
• A new Executive Order banning discrimination in all housing supported by federal funds.
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