On this date, the entire nation takes this day to celebrate Dr. King's life and service in the civil rights movement.
What is third Monday of January?
100
The community of Montgomery, Alabama organized in protest against segregation of whites and blacks in the public bus system by refusing to us the buses.
What is Montgomery Bus Boycott?
100
This city was where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed on April 4, 1968.
What is Memphis, TN?
100
This law was passed in July 1964 making racial discrimination illegal.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
100
This term describes the legal separation of blacks and whites withing the community.
What is segregation?
200
Martin Luther King Jr. followed in the footsteps of his father as they both had this job.
What is pastor?
200
This elderly woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person.
What is Rosa Parks?
200
In this historical city, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is Washington D.C.?
200
This historic event was the gathering of 200,000 people in Washington D.C. in order to promote civil rights and hear Dr. King deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?
200
This term describes the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition and was practiced by Dr. King and his followers in all public protest even under the most violent circumstances.
What is non-violence?
300
Martin Luther King Jr. receieved this distinguished award in 1964 for his dedication to civil rights and social justice.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
300
This set of laws primarily practiced in the South legalized the segregation of whites and blacks in public places such as restaurants and buses.
What is the Jim Crow Laws?
300
This church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed on September 15, 1963 resulting in the death of four African-American girls.
What is 16th Street Baptist Church?
300
This group of people rode South in 1961 in buses to protest segregation in the South and were met with violence and brutality.
What is the Freedom Riders?
300
This term describes the refusal to use a service or purchase a good in protest.
What is boycott?
400
Martin Luther King Jr. asked this woman to be his wife after their first date, and they later actually married.
What is Coretta Scott King?
400
This young pastor was elected as the leader of the boycott.
What is Martin Luther King Jr.?
400
This church located in Montgomery, Alabama was the meeting place of several important civil rights meetings as well as the first and only church which Martin Luther King Jr. pastored.
What is Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church?
400
This important court case resulted in the federal government's order to desegregate all public schools.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education?
400
This organization coordinated anti-segregation efforts of African American leaders in the South, and its first president was Martin Luther King Jr.
What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
500
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote this essay while in Birmingham's prison.
What is Letter from Birmingham Jail?
500
This part of the government ruled that segregation on the public bus system was unconstitutional due to the impact of the boycott.
What is the Supreme Court?
500
This bridge located in Selma, Alabama was the site of the conflict of "Bloody Sunday" on March 7, 1965, when armed officers attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators attempting to march to Montgomery.
What is the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
500
On this date, Martin Luther King Jr. was assisinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
What is April 4, 1968?
500
This interracial U.S. organization worked for political and civil equality of black people
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?