The family of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday demanded the Senate pass voting rights legislation and said lawmakers who truly honor the late civil rights leader's legacy must stand on the right side of history.
"No matter what happens tomorrow, we must keep the pressure on and say no more empty words. Don't tell us what you believe in, show us with your votes. History will be watching what happens tomorrow," Martin Luther King III, son of Martin Luther King Jr. said in a speech in Washington, DC."Black and brown Americans will be watching what happens tomorrow.
'Whose side are you on?'During the National Action Network's annual breakfast honoring King on Monday, Biden echoed the same message he delivered in Georgia last week where he said lawmakers must choose to stand on the side of civil rights leaders such as King or on the side of segregationists like former Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
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