Test Your Knowledge Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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1. Where did Rosa Parks become famous?

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on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest Dec. 1 lead to a yearlong boycott aimed to desegregate the bus system.

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2. What year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?

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He was killed in Memphis, Tennessee where he had gone to support a strike by sanitation workers.

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3. What foreign figure has King been compared to?

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Mohandas Gandhi - King admired Gandhi greatly, and traveled to India in 1959.

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4. Where did King deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?

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At the Lincoln Memorial - he addressed a quarter-million people who turned out for the 1963 March on Washington.

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5. Where was the tactic of the sit-in protest first used?

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At a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina - the 1960 protest was one of the key moments in the civil rights movement

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6. Which president signed the first major civil rights act of the 20th Century?

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Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2 that year.

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7. Which president signed the law creating the Martin Luther King holiday?

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Ronald Reagan signed it in November 1983, more than 15 years after King was killed.

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8. What year was the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday first observed?

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1986 - the first legislation for the holiday had been proposed almost 18 years earlier

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9. What was the name of King's first book?

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Stride to Freedom was his first book published when he was 29 years old.

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10. What black leader was killed five years before King's assassination?

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Medgar Evers - The NAACP leader was murdered June 12, 1963.

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Where did Rosa Parks become famous?
What year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
What foreign figure has King been compared to?
Where did King deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?
Where was the tactic of the sit-in protest first used?
Which president signed the first major civil rights act of the 20th...
Which president signed the law creating the Martin Luther King...
What year was the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday first...
What was the name of King's first book?
What black leader was killed five years before King's assassination?
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