General Knowledge
Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
What is January 15, 1929?
The name of MLK's wife.
Who is Coretta Scott?
The name of the famous African American woman who would not give up her seat on a bus?
Who is Rosa Parks?
The place where MLK's famous speech was held?
What is Washington DC?
This person is famous for leading countless slaves to freedom through the "Underground Railroad".
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Martin Luther King Jr.'s original first name.
Who is Michael?
He was the Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the Civil Rights Movement. He was also the father and namesake of the civil rights leader.
Who is Martin Luther King Sr.?
A civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
In the 1890s, southern states passed a law that discriminated against and segregated Black people from white people.
What is Jim Crow?
The first African-American woman to obtain an international pilot’s license in the U.S.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
MLK's hometown.
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
The age MLK graduated high school.
What is 15 years old?
The Supreme Court verdict of the bus segregation.
What is Un-constitutional?
The year MLK was assassinated.
What is 1968?
The first person who founded the first black-owned hospital in America and performed the world's first successful heart surgery, in 1893.
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
The age MLK traveled to Germany and changed his name.
What is 6 years old?
The number of children Dr.King had.
What is 4?
The name of was a civil rights leader and union organizer in Alabama who played a crucial role in organizing the landmark Montgomery bus boycott in 1955.
Who is Edgar Daniel Nixon/E.D Nixon?
The attack on peaceful Civil Rights marchers who crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march.
What is bloody Sunday?
Martin Luther King Jr. always preached ________ and equal _________.
What is peace and rights?
The College MLK graduated from.
What is Boston University?
This doctrine was used to overturn the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1857.
What is "separate but equal"?
The person who led the March from Selma to Montgomery.
Who is John Lewis?
This person was a former slave who wrote an autobiography to show the people what it truly meant to be an African American in the South.
Who is Fredrick Douglas?