Civil Rights Movement Quiz

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in what month?

• January
• February
• August
• September

Martin Luther King Jr. went to college at what school?

• Boston University
• Morehouse College
• Tulane University
• University of Tennessee

Martin Luther King Jr lead a bus boycott to protest the arrest of whom?

• Thurgood Marshall
• Rosa Parks
• Emmett Till
• James Meredith

What famous speech did Martin Luther King Jr. give?

• Pearl Harbor Address
• I Have a Dream
• Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You
• Gettysburg Address

At what memorial did King Jr. deliver his famous speech?

• Lincoln
• Jefferson
• Washington
• Korean

How many people were thought to be at the Civil Rights March on Washington?

• 25,000
• 100,000
• 150,000
• 200,000

Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize.

• True
• False

He opposed the U.S. involvement in what war?

• Vietnam War
• Korean War
• Cold War
• WWI

How old was Martin Luther King Jr. when he died?

• 25
• 39
• 43
• 55

Martin Luther King Jr. Day was first celebrated as a holiday in what year?

• 1970
• 1974
• 1986
• 1999