Martin Luther King's family, Vice President Harris urge action for voting rights - Reuters

Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., speaks before the start of a Peace Walk on the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge to urge Democrats to pass a law protecting voting rights during Martin Luther King Jr.

WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr!

As part of the annual Martin Luther King Jr.

Peace Walk, the King family and more than 100 national and local civil rights groups strode across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge calling on President Joe Biden's Democrats to pass a bill in the U.S.

At a rally before Monday's March, King's son, Martin Luther King III, praised Democrats for passing a sweeping infrastructure bill last year, but implored them to push through voting-rights legislation.

King III, his wife, Arndrea Waters King, and their daughter Yolanda Renee King, led the march across the bridge.

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer has said the chamber would take up the bill on Tuesday, a delay from his earlier plan to hold a procedural vote on the bill by Monday, the federal holiday honoring King.

Yolanda Renee King addressed comments to the two holdout senators after the march.