Fun Fact 1
While attending Boston University for his doctorate, Dr. King met his wife _____, a singer and civil rights activist
Who is Coretta Scott?
Although Martin Luther King Jr. Day is observed on the third Monday of January each year, his actual birthday is ____?
What is January 15th?
This popular magazine awarded Dr. King as “Man of the Year” in 1963 to commemorate his position as the spokesperson of the civil rights movement
What is Time magazine?
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice _____.”
What is everywhere?
King's birth name was ____, not Martin
Who is Michael?
Dr. King delivered this famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial in front of the largest gathering in Washington, DC’s history.
What is I Have a Dream speech?
This song written and sung by Sam Cooke in 1964, became an anthem for the civil rights movement
What is "A Change Is Gonna Come"
"I have decided to stick with love, ____ is too great a burden to bear"
What is hate?
According to the King Center, the civil rights leader went to jail how many times?
What is 29?
King was such a gifted student that he skipped grades nine and 12 before enrolling in 1944 at Morehouse College, the alma mater of his father and maternal grandfather at the age of __
What is 15?
Dr. King was shot on April 4, 1968, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. In 1991, this motel became known as what?
What is the National Civil Rights Museum?
“Our lives begin to end the day we become _____ about things that matter.”
What is silent?
Dr. King was the youngest person at the time to be awarded a ____ for his outstanding contributions to combat racial inequality through nonviolence.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
In 1955, King led the nonviolent _____, which ultimately led to the desegregation of city buses.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This 2014 Golden Globe Award winning historical drama film is based on the 1965 Montgomery voting rights marches led by Martin Luther King Jr., Hosea Williams, and John Lewis.
What is Selma?
“We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to _____.”
What is to do right?
The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award granted to citizens by the President of the United States, was presented to Dr. King in 1977 by which president?
Who is Jimmy Carter?
In 1955, King founded the MIA, a group of local Black ministers and community leaders which was formed to improve race relations in Montgomery. What does MIA stand for?
What is the Montgomery Improvement Association?
In a production featurette included on the DVD release of the 1994 Tom Hanks movie, the director Robert Zemeckis talks about a special effects scene he left out of the original in which _____ saves King from an attack by vicious police dogs by distracting them.
Who is Forrest Gump?
“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not _____ with each other.”
What is communicate?