What word means to keep people separate based on the color of their skin?
Segregation
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Where was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?
Atlanta, Georgia
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What was the name of president who first ended slavery?
President Abraham Lincoln
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Where did Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech take place?
Washington, D.C.
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What was the name of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s wife?
Coretta Scott
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How did Martin Luther King, Jr. try to gain his rights? Peacefully or violently?
Peacefully
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What was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s job?
He was a minister.
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What was the name of the woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white person?
Rosa Parks
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What part of the country did Martin Luther King, Jr. spend most of his life in? The north or the south?
The southern part of the United States.
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True or False. Martin Luther King, Jr. had children.
True
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What was the name for the kind of protest where people would sit in a restaurant and refuse to get up and leave?
A sit-in.
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What happened to Martin Luther King, Jr.?
He was killed by an assassin.
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What was the name of the white president who supported civil rights for African Americans?
President Kennedy
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What state did Martin Luther King, Jr. get his first job in as a minister? Alaska, Michigan, or Alabama?
Alabama
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True or False. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s family home was once firebombed by angry protesters.
True
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What do you call a form of protest where people refuse to buy things or stop using services? In Martin's story, this happened when people refused to ride the buses.
Boycott
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True or False. When Martin Luther King, Jr. was a boy the laws were fair.
False
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What was the name of the group of white people that did not support African Americans gaining their civil rights? They often wore white uniforms with white hoods.
The Ku Klux Klan, or KKK.
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What was the name of an important prize Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded for all of his hard work, and how he did all of that hard work?