| Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom | |||
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| Part of the Civil Rights Movement | |||
| Date | May 17, 1957 | ||
| Location | Washington, D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial | ||
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The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, or Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington, was a 1957 demonstration in Washington, D.C., an early event in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It was the occasion for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Give Us the Ballot speech.