Martin Luther King Jr. was an American pastor who led the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. He organized nonviolent protests to fight against racial segregation and discrimination. Some of his most notable efforts included organizing the Montgomery bus boycott and leading the March on Washington, where he delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. King advocated for equal voting rights and basic civil rights for African Americans through peaceful demonstrations and is remembered today as one of the most influential leaders of the civil rights movement.

5. March on Washington

6. WHAT DID THE MARCH MEAN? - The end of the racial segregation in the public schools. - A significant legislation on the civil laws (including a law that was prohibiting the racial discrimination in the world of the work). - A protection of the activists of the civil laws of the police violence. - A minimum wage of 2 dollars for all the workers without distinction. In spite of the tensions, the march was a round success. More than 250 000 persons of all the races met on August 28, 1963 opposite to the Capitol of the United States, in what it constituted the biggest manifestation that has taken place in the American capital.

7. His famous speech

11. Luther King is remembered because he organized and carried out diverse pacific activities claiming the right to vote, not discrimination and other basic civil laws for the people of black race of the United States. King is remembered as one of the major leaders and heroes of the history of The United States, and in the modern history of not violence. The Presidential Medal of the Freedom was granted to him posthumously by Jimmy Carter in 1977 and the Golden medal of the congress of the United States in 2004. From 1986, the Martin Luther King Day is a bank holiday in the United States.

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