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Martin Luther King, a civil rights activist from a young age, organized and carried out a variety of peaceful activities demanding the right to vote, nondiscrimination, and other basic civil rights for black people in the United States. Among his most remembered actions are the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955; his support of the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), in 1957 (of which he would be its first president); and the leadership of the March on Washington for Labor and Freedom, in August 1963, at the end of which he would deliver his famous speech "I have a dream" ("I have a dream"), thanks to which he would extend for nationwide public awareness of the civil rights movement and would establish himself as one of the greatest speakers in American history. Most of the rights claimed by the movement would be approved with the enactment of the Act Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. is considered one of the assassinations of the 20th century. King is remembered as one of the greatest leaders and heroes in the history of the United States, and in the modern history of nonviolence. . He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter in 1977 and the United States Congressional Gold Medal in 2004. Since 1986, Martin Luther King Jr. Day has been a public holiday in the United States. .