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For that activity aimed at ending American segregation and racial discrimination through non-violent means, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize No. 2 in 1964. Four years later, at a time when his work had been especially focused toward opposition to war and the fight against poverty, was murdered in Memphis as he prepared to attend an informal dinner of friends.Note 3Martin Luther King, a civil rights activist from an early age, organized and carried out various peaceful activities demanding the right to vote, non-discrimination and other basic civil rights for black people in the United States. Among his most remembered actions are the bus boycott in Montgomery, in 1955; his support for 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 Work and Freedom, in August 1963, at the end of which he would deliver his famous "I have a dream" speech, public awareness of the civil rights movement and would consolidate itself as one of the greatest speakers in American history.2 Most of the rights claimed by the movement would be legally approved with the promulgation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Right of