Martin Luther King, Jr. led the Civic Rights Movement of the 1960s.He organized nonviolent marches to protest segregation and racial injustice. On August 28, 1963, an interracial assembly of more than 200,000 gathered peaceably in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial to demand equal justice for all citizens under the law. “I Have a Dream” speech dealing with peace and racial equality is one of the most powerful speeches in American history in which he emphasized his faith that all men, someday, would be brothers. On July 2, 1964, the Civic Rights Acts signed in to law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Dr. King was assassinated by a gunman in 1968.
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