King became the official spokesperson for a bus boycott, placing a severe economic strain on the public transit system and downtown business owners, in this city.
What is Montgomery, AL?
100
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this act into law on August 6, 1965 with King and other civil rights leaders present at the ceremony.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
100
This FBI director personally ordered surveillance of King with the intent to undermine his power as a civil rights leader.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
100
"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
What is "I Have a Dream" speech?
200
King graduated from this college with a sociology degree.
What is Morehouse College?
200
King was elected as the first president of this group, formed to provide new leadership for the civil rights movement.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
200
King was named Man of the Year by this publication in 1963.
What is TIME magazine?
200
This man plead guilty to assassinating King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
Who is James Earl Ray?
200
“I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
What is the "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
300
King became the pastor of this church in Montgomery, Alabama, when he was twenty five years old, in 1954.
What is the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?
300
While arrested in this city, King penned a civil rights manifesto, an eloquent letter in defense of civil disobedience addressed to a group of white clergymen who had criticized his tactics.
What is Birmingham, AL?
300
In 1964, King was the youngest person to ever be awarded this.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
300
What famous speech did King give the day before he was assassinated?
What is “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”?
300
“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.”
What is the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech?
400
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legal birth name.
Who is Michael King, Jr.?
400
Following the December 1955 arrest of Rosa Parks, King was elected as president of this group to lead the bus boycotts and to develop a plan to transport boycotters to and from work during the bus strike.
What is the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)?
400
Former House Speaker John Boehner posthumously awarded Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King with this award in 2014.
What is the Congressional Gold Medal?
400
This African American leader challenged the mainstream civil rights movement and the nonviolent pursuit of integration championed by King; he urged followers to defend themselves against aggression “by any means necessary.”
Who is Malcolm X?
400
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that”
What is King's book, Strength to Love?
500
King was the valedictorian of his class and elected student body president at this seminary school in Chester, Pennsylvania.
What is Crozer Theological Seminary?
500
When King and other civil rights leaders sought court protection for the march from Selma, AL to the state capitol in Montgomery, this judge ruled in favor of King and the other demonstrators.
Who is Frank M. Johnson?
500
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is widely regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the American civil rights movement and a factor in the passage of this act.
What is the Civil Rights Acts of 1964?
500
This young activist was elected national chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in May 1966, but had largely lost faith in King's theory of nonviolent resistance that he eventually coined the rallying cry "black power".
Who is Stokley Carmichael?
500
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”