Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech influenced the Kennedy administration's decision to enhance earlier civil rights legislation.

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The speech is considered a major factor in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson after Kennedy's assassination. However, King's activism and advocacy for civil rights had already been ongoing, and Kennedy had proposed civil rights legislation prior to the famous speech.