From Story Corps: WWII Veteran Mateo Snipes' Action inspired Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter

Read at: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/14/1072980492/how-a-wwii-veterans-act-of-voting-inspired-a-teenage-martin-luther-king-jr

The Story of How a WWII veteran's act of voting inspired
a teenaged Martin Luther King Jr. in Georgia, in 1945

JARROD SPORT

January 14, 20225:15 AM ET

From Transcript, as heard on Morning Edition