Fun facts
MLK was born in this city and state on Tuesday, January 15, 1929.
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
MLK delivered his famous speech “I Have a Dream …” in this year.
What is 1963?
MLK received this prestigious prize in 1964 for showing “that a struggle can be waged without violence.”
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
Site (city and state) of the first lunch counter sit-ins.
What is Greensboro, North Carolina?
MLK helped lead this organized protest which resulted in city buses becoming desegregated.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The first name on Dr. King's birth certificate
What is Michael?
This national magazine named MLK “Man of the Year” in 1963.
What is Time Magazine?
Across the U.S., over 900 of these have been named after MLK.
What are streets?
At the time of MLK’s birth, this was his father’s occupation.
What is a Minister?
In 1957, MLK formed this organization to fight against segregation and for civil rights.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
MLK recorded an album of his Detroit speech, titling it The Great March to Freedom, with this influential record label.
What is Motown Records?
The city and state marking the starting point of three civil rights marches along a highway, in 1965.
What is Selma, Alabama?
This president awarded MLK the posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Who is President Jimmy Carter?
While in solitary confinement in Alabama (having been arrested for leading a march), MLK writes an essay entitled this.
What is the “Letter from Birmingham Jail?”
In 1965, this president signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
Who is President Johnson?
Before going on to study at Crozer Theological Seminary and then Boston University, MLK graduated from this historically Black men’s college.
What is Morehouse?
In 1964, MLK briefly met this Muslim minister and fellow human rights activist for the only time.
Who is Malcolm X?
In 2000, this state became the last state to recognize MLK Day as a holiday.
What is Utah?
Alarmed by plans for the March on Washington, this organization concluded that MLK was “demagogic” and leading America into a “racial revolution.”
What is the FBI?
This campaign—demanding a $12 billion Economic Bill of Rights guaranteeing employment to the able-bodied, income to those unable to work, and an end to housing discrimination—culminated in a March on Washington.
What is the Poor People’s Campaign?
In 1960, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was founded to coordinate protests at this institution of higher learning in Raleigh, North Carolina.
What is Shaw University?
In 1959, MLK visited this country in South Asia to study nonviolent activism.
What is India?
A name for the granite statue at the MLK Memorial in Washington, DC. MLK said this would be "hewn out of the mountain of despair" in his “I Have a Dream” speech.
What is A Stone of Hope?
These brothers, both national leaders, worked to have MLK released from jail after he was arrested at an Atlanta sit-in in 1960
Who is John and Robert Kennedy?
Towards the end of his life, MLK helped fight for the poor and helped fight against this war.
What is the Vietnam War?
President Ronald Reagan signed a bill in 1983 that added MLK day to the list of federal holidays. What year was it officially observed?
What is 1986?