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The president also awarded medals to civil rights leaders Clarence B Jones, who helped write Dr Martin Luther King Jr's I Have a Dream speech, and Medgar Evers, who died in 1963, as well as Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, and Judy Shepard, anti-hate crime campaigner.