". . . Frank told the students that the best way they can honor Dr. King is to vote at this year's elections, as one of King's greatest accomplishments was the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

"If you were black and you lived in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 and you tried to register to vote, you certainly would be economically ruined and you had a good chance of being badly beaten or killed, and that got changed with the Voting Rights Act of 1965," he said.

"Please don't tell me that you honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King and then forget to vote this year. Nothing could be more incompatible with the memory of this extraordinary human being who fought so hard and so successfully to allow people to vote in areas where they physically couldn't than people who have the right to vote and ignore it."