- What year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
a. 1960
b. 1963
c. 1968
d. 1973
- Where did Rosa Parks become famous?
a. At a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
b. At a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas
c. On a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
d. On a march in Selma, Alabama
- Which president signed the first major civil rights act of this century?
a. John F. Kennedy
b. Lyndon B. Johnson
c. Richard M. Nixon
d. Ronald Reagan
- Which president signed the law creating the Martin Luther King holiday?
a. John F. Kennedy
b. Lyndon B. Johnson
c. Richard M. Nixon
d. Ronald Reagan
- What was the name of King's first book?
a. Stride Toward Freedom
b. Dreamer
c. Why We Can't Wait
d. We Shall Overcome
- Where was the tactic of the sit-in protest first used?
a. At a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
b. At a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas
c. On a bus in Birmingham, Alabama
d. On a march in Selma, Alabama
- Where did King deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?
a. At Ebenezer Baptist Church
b. In front of the Atlanta City Hall
c. At the Lincoln Memorial
d. At the Nobel Prize ceremony
- Who is the protagonist of the novel Charles Johnson is writing?
a. The driver of a Birmingham bus
b. Martin Luther King Jr.
c. A bodyguard in Chicago
d. A sanitation worker in Memphis
- What foreign figure has King been compared to?
a. Charles de Gaulle
b. Mohandas Gandhi
c. Albert Nobel
d. Nelson Mandela
- What year was the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday first observed?
a. 1969
b. 1973
c. 1980
d. 1986
- What black leader was killed five years before King's assassination?
a. James Meredith
b. Malcolm X
c. Medgar Evers
d. Stokely Carmichael
- Why was King arrested in 1956?
a. Protesting segregated department store facilities in Birmingham.
b. Driving too fast
c. Sitting in at a Woolworth's lunch counter.
d. Assaulting a police officer.
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