Early Life
This was Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth name.
What is Michael King?
Martin Luther King Jr. completed his doctoral studies at this university.
What is Boston University?
This boycott marked Martin Luther King Jr.’s first major civil rights action.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Martin Luther King Jr. promoted this type of protest.
What is nonviolent protest?
This landmark is where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
This Georgia city is where Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929.
What is Atlanta?
This prestigious prize was awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
This act by Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
What is refusing to give up her bus seat?
King modeled his activism after the principles of this leader.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This quote appears on the Stone of Hope at the MLK Memorial.
What is “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope”?
Martin Luther King Jr. was this child in his family lineup.
What is the middle child?
At the time of winning the Nobel Peace Prize, King was this age.
What is 35?
In 1956, the Supreme Court ruled this practice unconstitutional following the boycott.
What is segregated bus seating?
This civil rights organization was founded by King and other ministers in 1957.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is located in this city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
At age 15, Martin Luther King Jr. entered this college.
What is Morehouse College?
This was the title of Martin Luther King Jr.’s first book: Stride Toward ____.
What is Freedom?
This Supreme Court case ruled segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
CORE, an organization that supported King, stands for this.
What is the Congress of Racial Equality?
The MLK national holiday is celebrated on this day each year.
What is the third Monday in January?
This 1939 movie premiere featured King singing with his church choir.
What is Gone with the Wind?
King won this literary award for Stride Toward Freedom.
What is the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award?
This Detroit event in 1963 drew 125,000 people and was led by King.
What is the Freedom Walk?
King was arrested this many times for civil disobedience.
What is 29 times?
This president approved the creation of the MLK national holiday.
Who is Ronald Reagan?