Andrea Joy Campbell: “I support passage of the pending bill, S. 1791, that Senator Lieberman and I introduced. This legislation would…”

“I support passage of the pending bill, S. 1791, that Senator Lieberman and I introduced. This legislation would authorize the Librarian of Congress to acquire Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior's personal papers from his estate. Dr. King, as a minister, civil rights leader, prolific writer and Nobel Price winner, was deeply committed to nonviolence in the struggle for civil rights. He is quite possible the most important and influential black leader in American history. When Dr. King was tragically assassinated on April 4, 1968, he was in his prime, after having emerged as a true national hero and a chief advocate of peacefully uniting a racially divided nation. He strove to build communities of hope and opportunity for all. He recognized that all Americans must be free if we are to live in a truly great nation. The acquisition of Dr. King's papers would permanently place them in the public domain. People from all over the United States, and the entire world, would have direct access to these important historic documents.”