"I have a dream..."
What famous boycott did Martin Luther King Jr. help orchestrate?
A) Nashville Bus Boycott
B) Jacksonville Bus Boycott
C) Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955 -- the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger -- to December 20, 1956, when the federal ruling Browder v. Gayle took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared segregation on buses to be unconstitutional.
When is Martin Luther King Jr. Day observed?
A) Fourth Monday of Januar
B) First Monday of January
C) Third Monday of January
Third Monday of January
MLK Day is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around King's birthday, January 15.
What college did Martin Luther King Jr. attend?
A) Tuskegee University
B) Howard University
C) Morehouse College
Morehouse College
King graduated from Morehouse College in 1948 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology.
What was the name of Martin Luther King's wife?
A) Rosa
B) Octavia
C) Coretta
Coretta Scott King
King married Coretta Scott on June 18, 1953, on the lawn of her parents' house in her hometown of Heiberger, Alabama.
What grade did Martin Luther King skip?
A) He repeated 10th grade
B) 11th grade
C) 9th and 12th grade
9th and 12th grade
An outstanding student, he skipped both the ninth and the twelfth grades of high school.
Where did King deliver his famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
A) Atlanta, Georgia
B) Washington, D.C.
C) Memphis, Tennessee
Washington, D.C.
Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the civil rights movement.
What is the title of the 30-foot granite sculpture of Dr. King at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in the National Mall in Washington, D.C.?
A) Stone of Hope
B) Stone of Freedom
C) Stone of Resistance
Stone of Hope
The inspiration for the memorial design is a line from King's, "I Have A Dream," speech: "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."
Whose essay on Civil Disobedience inspired Martin Luther King?
A) Frederick Douglass
B) Louisa May Alcott
C) Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
It was at Morehouse College that Martin Luther King was exposed to the writings of Henry David Thoreau.
How did Izola Curry try to kill King?
A) With a tire iron
B) With a letter opener
C) With arsenic
With a letter opener
On September 20, 1958, King was signing copies of his book Stride Toward Freedom in Blumstein's department store in Harlem when Izola Curry--a mentally ill woman who thought Dr. King was conspiring against her with communists--attacked him in the chest with a letter opener.
What year was Dr. King awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
A) 1977
B) 1971
C) 1968
In 1977, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.
How many times was Dr. King imprisoned?
A) 29 times
B) 11 times
C) 19 times
29 times
According to the King Center, the civil rights leader went to jail 29 times. He was arrested for acts of civil disobedience and on trumped-up charges, such as when he was jailed in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 for driving 30 miles per hour in a 25-mile-per-hour zone.
What happened to Dr. King in 1963?
A) He won the Nobel Peace Prize
B) He was Time magazine's Man of the Year
C) His house was bombed
He was Time magazine's Man of the Year
Time magazine saw King as the personification of the Civil Rights Movement, and in its January 4, 1964 issue, gave him Man of the Year honors for 1963.
At what church did King serve as pastor?
A) Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
B) 16th Street Baptist Church
C) Montgomery Hill Baptist Church
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
From 1954 until 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, the only church where MLK pastored and the site where he began his Civil Rights activism.
What name was Martin Luther King Jr. born with?
A) Martin
B) Michael
C) Lionel
Michael
In 1934, Dr. King's father traveled to Germany and was inspired by the Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther. As a result, King Sr. changed his own name as well as that of his 5-year-old son from Michael to Martin Luther.
How old was King when he graduated from Morehouse College?
A) 19 years old
B) 20 years old
C) 17 years old
19 years old
King was just 19 years old when he graduated from Morehouse College.
What civil rights organization did King found with Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Joseph Lowery?
A) SCLC
B) NAACP
C) SNCC
SCLC
In 1957, King and other civil rights activists founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The group was created to harness the moral authority and organizing power of black churches to conduct nonviolent protests in the service of civil rights reform.
Where was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
A) Memphis, Tennessee
B) Atlanta, Georgia
C) Washington, D.C.
Memphis Tennessee
In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Who authorized the FBI to wiretap Dr. King's telephone line?
A) J. Edgar Hoover
B) Robert F. Kennedy
C) Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
The FBI was under written directive from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy when it began tapping King's telephone line in the fall of 1963.
How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
A) 381 Days
B) 265 Days
C) 192 Days
381 Days
The boycott lasted for over a year. It finally ended on December 20, 1956 after 381 days.
Martin Luther King Jr. pursued higher education through various colleges and universities. Which of these did MLK Jr. not attend?
A) Boston University School of Theology
B) Howard University
C) Morehouse College
Howard University
Martin Luther King Jr. did not attend Howard University.
How old was Martin Luther King when he won the Nobel Peace Prize?
A) 40 years old
B) 29 years old
C) 35 years old
35 years old
At 35 years of age, the Georgia-born minister was the youngest person ever to receive the award.
What year was Martin Luther King Day first observed as a federal holiday?
A) 1983
B) 1980
C) 1986
1986
The campaign for a federal holiday in King's honor began soon after his assassination in 1968. President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed three years later, in 1986.
How long is the, "I Have a Dream," speech?
A) 1 hour
B) 17 minutes
C) 7 minutes
17 minutes
According to the King Center, Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech is 17 minutes long.
How many children did Martin Luther King Jr. have?
A) Two
B) None
C) Four
Four
King had four children: Yolanda King (born 1955), Martin Luther King III (born 1957), Dexter Scott King (born 1961), and Bernice King (born 1963).
Which High School did Martin Luther King attend?
A) Northridge High School
B) Concord High School
C) Booker T. Washington High School
Martin Luther King graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1944 at just15 years old.