Question

Martin Luther King, Jr., played a key role in the civil rights movement when he.

A) signed the Civil Rights Act
B) ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional.
C) passed laws that banned discrimination.
D) addressed those involved in the "March on Washington"​

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

In 1963 King helped organize the March on Washington, an assembly of more than 200,000 people at which he made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. The march influenced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and King was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for Peace.