Early Life & Influences
This U.S. city is where Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929
What is Atlanta?
This protest against segregated buses brought MLK national attention in the 1950s.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This speech includes the famous phrase “I have a dream.”
What is the “I Have a Dream” speech?
This Indian leader inspired MLK’s philosophy of nonviolent resistance.
Who was Mahatma Gandhi?
Both MLK’s work and Freedom 250 emphasize the protection of this core human value.
What is human dignity?
This Baptist minister and civil rights leader was MLK’s father.
Who was Martin Luther King Sr.?
This 1964 law outlawed segregation in public spaces across the United States.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
This powerful letter was written by MLK while jailed for nonviolent protest.
What is “Letter from Birmingham Jail”?
This form of protest was central to MLK’s strategy for social change.
What is nonviolent civil disobedience?
This famous MLK quote warns against staying silent in the face of injustice.
What is “The silence of our friends”?
This U.S. state shaped MLK’s early experiences with segregation and racism.
What is Georgia?
This Alabama campaign used nonviolent protest and exposed police brutality to the world.
What is the Birmingham Campaign?
MLK believed people should be judged by this rather than the color of their skin.
What is the content of their character?
In 1964, MLK became the youngest recipient at the time of this award.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
Both the Holocaust and racial segregation were built on this false belief about human beings.
What is the idea that some people are superior to others?
MLK was only this age when he enrolled at Morehouse College.
What is 15?
This historic 1963 event featured MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech
What is the March on Washington?
This speech was delivered by MLK the night before he was assassinated.
What is “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”?
According to MLK, injustice anywhere is a threat to this everywhere.
What is justice?
Remembering past atrocities helps societies prevent this from happening again.
What is genocide or mass injustice?
This president of Morehouse College profoundly influenced MLK’s ideas on moral leadership and justice.
Who was Benjamin Mays?
This violent event in Selma, Alabama, helped lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is Bloody Sunday?
This MLK book asks whether America would choose unity or division.
What is Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
MLK’s ideas influenced global movements fighting colonialism, racism, and oppression on this continent and beyond.
What is Africa? or What is the world?
MLK’s message challenges modern societies to respond actively to racism, genocide, and oppression through this principle.
What is moral courage and action?