How Well Do You Know MLK?

How Well Do You Know MLK?

Poll

Do you believe we must work together across differences

to achieve racial equality?

• Yes

• No

• I Don't Know

Multiple Choice

True or False:

Dr. MLK Jr. believed black and white had to work together to achieve racial equality.

• True

• False

• I Don't Know

"They segregated southern money from the poor whites and they segregated the Negro from everything. That's what happened when the Negro and white masses of the South threatened to unite and build a great society: a society of justice where none would prey upon the weakness of others; a society of plenty where greed and poverty would be done away." ~ 1965, at the end of the Selma Montgomery March.​

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Poll

Do you believe all protests should be nonviolent?

• Yes

• No

• I Don't Know

Multiple Choice

True or False:

Dr. MLK Jr believed all proests should be nonviolent.

• True

• False

• I Don't Know

​"I am still committed to militant, powerful, massive nonviolence as the most potent weapon in grappling with racism." ~ Speech at Grosse Pointe High School , 1968

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True!

Poll

Do you understand why people sometimes start riots against racism?

• Yes

• No

• I Don't Know

Multiple Choice

True or False:

Dr. MLK Jr spoke out against rioting and told people to be nonviolent instead.

• True

• False

• I Don't Know

I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last 12 or 15 years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met . . ." ~ Speech at Grosse Pointe High School

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Poll

Do you believe everyone should have free healthcare?

• Yes

• No

• I Don't Know

Multiple Choice

True or False:

Dr. MLK Jr. believed people had a right to free healthcare.

• True

• False

• I Don't Know

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death. I see no alternative to direct action and creative nonviolence to achieve free healthcare for everyone." ~ Speech to the Medical Committee

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Poll

Do you believe in war?

• Yes

• No

• I Don't Know

Multiple Choice

True or False:

Dr. MLK Jr. did not believe in war.

• True

• False

• I Don't Know

"So I see the war as an enemy of the poor. We were taking the Black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them 8,000 miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem . . ." ~ 'Beyond Vietnam' Speech at Riverside Church, New York 1967

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Multiple Choice

True or False:

Dr. MLK Jr. believed that the United States government was the greatest source of violence in the world.

• True

• False

• I Don't Know

Poll

Do you believe the US Government is the greatest source of violence in the world?

• Yes

• No

• I Don't Know

"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the

violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of

violence in the world today: my own government."

~ 'Beyond Vietnam' Speech at Riverside Church, New York 1967

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Multiple Choice

True or False:

Dr. MLK Jr. was the FBI's "Most Wanted Man in America"

• True

• False

• I Don't Know

.Through a program called COINTELPRO, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover directed federal agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" Dr. King's activities.

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Open Ended

Have you learned anything new about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today? Name at least one thing you've learned in your answer.

Open Ended

Did anything surprise you about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from today's class? How did your understanding of MLK change?

(Focus on times when your answer and MLK's answer to a question were different)