- One of the biggest achievements of his struggle is that having public support of US President John F. Kennedy , in favor of civil rights in 1963.
- The M archa on Washington for Jobs and Freedom , led by MLK on August 28, 1963, brought together more than 250,000 people of all ethnicities in one of the largest demonstrations that occurred in the capital The USA.
- In this march he was delivered the famous speech I have a dream (I have a dream), considered one of the best in history and number one in the twentieth century , according to scholars of rhetoric. …show more content…
In it, MLK document references used as the United States Declaration of Independence ; the Emancipation Proclamation , and the United States Constitution , and contain biblical references.
- He was the youngest to win the Nobel Peace Prize person in 1964 for leading nonviolent resistance in order to eradicate racial prejudice in American territory.
- Also he carried out a major fight and stand against the Vietnam War and poverty . A year before his death, in his speech entitled Beyond Vietnam: time to break the silence , MLK urged by a moral change and called his country "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world".
- Precisely at the time when its work was particularly geared towards their opposition to war and the fight against poverty, he was killed in the midst of one of his speeches on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968