1. He adopted three immigrant children.
   He set fire to statue of Abraham Lincoln.
2. He gave a famous speech.

At the March on Washington, King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, in which he remarked on race relations and inequality in America. His rousing performance is regarded as a major event of the Civil Rights Movement.

1. civil disobedience
   political assassinations
2. rioting

King encouraged the idea of non-violent civil disobedience, in which Civil Rights activists broke social norms and laws in order to highlight inquality. Their tactics sometimes worked — and sometimes, they paid a steep price for their actions.

1. His family was completely impoverished.
   His family was from a stable middle-class background.
2. He was an orphan.

King grew up comfortably in Atlanta thanks to his successful preacher father. He was blessed with a large, stable family and excellent educational opportunities.

1. computer science and programming
   law and medicine
2. finance and economics

In his first years at college, King was was drawn toward medicine and law. But he ultimately was called to the ministry ... and to serving a cause greater than his own career.

1. abducted by aliens
   segregated schools
2. murder-suicide

When he was six years old, one of King’s white friends was whisked away to a segregated school. It was an event that left a lasting impression on the young boy.

1. He was saddened by his grandmother’s sudden death.
   He was hooked on painkillers.
2. He listened to too many Marilyn Manson songs.

When he was 12, King snuck out of the house to attend a parade, and in the meantime his beloved grandma died. He was so heartbroken by the event that he leaped from a second-story window trying to kill himself.

1. He was mocked for being a Southerner.
   He was disappointed at not having special water fountains divided by race.
2. He was shocked at how nice people were to each other, no matter their skin color.

King was floored by his experiences in the North, where people treated each other equally no matter their race. It made him rethink his ideas on skin color and prejudice.

1. Michael
   Juan
2. Second Coming

He was actually given the name Michael King at birth. But he gravitated toward Martin and never looked back.

1. hydrochloric acid
   water hoses and dogs
2. bombs and napalm

During Birmingham protests, police unleashed dogs and streams of water from fire hoses against protesters. King was arrested, and he wrote his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" while locked up.

1. true
2. false

False. King was just 15 in 1944 as the war raged overseas. Thanks to a war-era program meant to keep colleges functioning at high capacity, King actually attended college classes starting at age 15.

1. Montgomery
   Seattle
2. Vancouver

King was a Southern man through and through — like his father and grandfather, he became a Baptist preacher. And one of his first jobs was to lead a flock in Montgomery, Alabama, a place that became central to the Civil Rights Movement.

1. his public speaking skills
   his accounting abilities
2. his foreign policy attitudes

Classmates at seminary recognized King’s amazing skills as an orator. They so respected his intelligence that they elected him class president even though he was a minority student in a heavily white area.

1. “Bloody Sunday"
   “Terrible Tuesday"
2. “Freaky Friday"

Police brutality was commonplace during the protests of the Civil Rights Movement, and Selma was no exception. Protesters were beaten on camera — and normal human beings around America were horrified.

1. Katelyn
   Coretta
2. Skippy

King fell in love with Coretta Scott, the woman he married. They had four children and Coretta later became a figurehead of the minority rights movement.

1. local banks
   bus system
2. football team

After Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white rider, blacks boycotted the bus system. Their leader? None other than Martin Luther King, Jr.

1. 250
   2,500
2. 19,000

From ‘57 to ‘68, King gave around 2,500 speeches, many of which gravitated toward social rights. By some estimates, he traveled more than 6 million miles in his activist role.

1. He supported it.
   He expressed no real opinion on the war.
2. He publicly opposed it.

As his power grew, King publicly denounced the Vietnam War as a senseless and expensive ordeal that distracted from more important matters on the homefront.

1. American Civil Liberties Union
   Southern Christian Leadership Conference
2. Greenpeace

King helped to organize and lead the Southern Christian Leadership Confernce (SCLC), which became a powerful force during the Civil Rights era.

1. win a Nobel Peace Prize
   become president
2. appear on a FBI watch list

At the age of 35, King became the youngest man ever to win a Nobel Peace Prize. He immediately donated his prize money (about $55,000) to the Civil Rights Movement.

1. television
   product placement
2. Web blogs

In the early ‘60s, television was in its infancy, and handsome, well-spoken men like King and John F. Kennedy understood their on-camera appeal. King put his charisma to good use in front of cameras all around the world.

1. 0
   29
2. 285

As part of his leadership, King actively participated in civil disobedience activities. He was arrested 29 times during his life.

1. Johnson and King were mortal enemies.
   Johnson treated King with respect.
2. Johnson belittled King at every opportunity.

Johnson was an avid supporter of civil rights and treated King with respect. His administration helped create some important pieces of legislation for the Civil Rights Movement.

1. He was poisoned.
   His car was bombed.
2. He was shot by a sniper.

His premonition of death came true. King was on the balcony of his motel in Memphis when a sniper shot him from long range.

1. He placed King under surveillance.
   He tried to have King murdered.
2. He became good friends with King.

Hoover used the FBI as a tool to spy on King and his movement. The end goal? To minimize King’s power in American society and politics.

1. rioting throughout the land
   30 straight days of mourning
2. just a simple funeral, that’s it

In a tumultuous era, King’s murder was gasoline on a hot fire. Infuriated minorities rose up in cities around the country, starting riots that captured headlines all over the world.

1. He was captured in England.
   He went on a killing spree and murdered four other people.
2. Authorities let him escape.

James Earl Ray was a prison escapee who murdered the icon of the Civil Rights Movement. He was caught in London, convicted, and imprisoned. He died behind bars in 1998.

1. true
2. false

There’s no evidence that King was a communist. but officials at the FBI liked to think so, as the accusation gave them leverage to monitor King and his fellow activists.

1. He supported gay rights.
   He was adamantly opposed to gay rights.
2. No one really knows.

No one, not even his family, really knows King’s opinion on gay rights, a movement that has in some ways mirrored the Civil Rights Movement.

1. fair housing
   voting
2. prison sentencing for blacks

King’s death had a ripple effect around the world. Congress immediately passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, a fair housing act, which made it illegal for companies to discriminate against people due to race, religion, nationality or other factors.

1. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
   Civil Rights Day
2. Black History Day

Starting in 1986, January 20th is now celebrated as Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is now recognized by all 50 states in the Union.