Henry Eppes (1831–1917)

B Nitz
4 min readJan 17, 2022

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4616200/martin-luther-king-jrs-march-ballot-boxes-speech

People familiar with far right news sources would have heard of the Ray Epps conspiracy. Ex-president Trump recently brought up this name up to try to place himself as “leader” of the mob that has built up around this conspiracy. But the story of Henry Eppes (1831–1917) is much more interesting. This may have been the man Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. referred to in his March on the Ballot Box speech.

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