Martin Luther King, Jr. is famous for many things. Name one.

Why this is the answer

Martin Luther King, Jr. is on the test because he was the main leader of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He was a Baptist minister who organized peaceful protests against racial discrimination and the laws that separated people by race. Much of his work focused on Black Americans, but he wanted civil rights for everyone in the country, which is why "worked for equality for all Americans" is an accepted answer. King rooted his message in the nation's founding ideals. He held that every citizen deserved the promise of equality and justice in the Declaration of Independence, and he believed everyone should have the rights and freedoms listed in the First Amendment. His most famous moment came on August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which drew 250,000 people to the capital and was the largest demonstration for human rights in the nation's history. Speaking at the Lincoln Memorial, he gave the "I Have a Dream" speech, with its hope that people would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. USCIS quotes that line as the third accepted answer. In 1964 he won the Nobel Peace Prize at only 35. In 1965 he helped organize the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, for voting rights, and soon afterward Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968. The third Monday in January is now a national holiday in his honor. Of the three answers, the shortest is the easiest to say under pressure: he fought for civil rights. If you choose the quotation, say all of it, since half the line loses its meaning.