U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. waves to supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963, in Washington, D.C., during his “I Have a Dream” speech, which highlighted the March on Washington. The speech has been credited with mobilizing supporters of desegregation, and it prompted the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. James Earl Ray confessed to shooting King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
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