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Kennedy held this elected office before the presidency.
What is senator?
DAILY DOUBLE!
In exchange for removing missiles from Cuba, the US agreed to remove their missiles from this country.
This was the main goal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What is banning discrimination in public places based on race?
These are the type of laws King and his supporters were protesting in Birmingham in 1963.
What are segregation or Jim Crow?
Lee Harvey Oswald is buried in this Texas city.
What is Fort Worth?
Kennedy was assassinated in this city.
What is Dallas?
This was the leader of the Soviet Union during Kennedy’s presidency.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This was the president who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This event brought MLK to the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This was the building from which Oswald shot at President Kennedy.
What is the Texas Book Depository?
Kennedy helped draft this, but died before it was passed.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Kennedy ordered this around Cuba until the missiles were removed.
What is a blockade?
This is the tactic southern senators used to delay the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What is a filibuster?
DAILY DOUBLE!
MLK co-founded this organization of ministers.
This was the nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald on live television.
Who is Jack Ruby?
This was the failed US-backed attempt to invade Cuba in 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This person was arrested for killing President Kennedy.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
In 1965, King led a march between these two towns in Alabama.
What are Selma and Montgomery?
This was the massive event where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.
What is the March on Washington?
Kennedy ran against this Vice President in 1960.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The US discovered this country was building missile sites in Cuba.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
This previous civil rights leader inspired King’s non-violent strategies.
Who is Gandhi?
This was MLK's most famous letter.
What is "Letter From Birmingham Jail"?