Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Who was the first African-American student to attend the University of Mississippi?

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• James Meredith

• Rosa Parks

• George Washington Carver

Martin Luther King Jr. was BEST known as a(n)

• civic orator

• essayist

• television personality

• evangelical minister

Which point of view does “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” use?

• third person omniscient

• first person

• first person peripheral

• second person

In “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr. contains to all of the following references EXCEPT

• Christianity

• patriotism

• popular culture

• current events

In 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded with

• the WEB duBois medal

• the Nobel Prize

• the Pulitzer Prize

• an honorary Ph.D from the University of Mississippi

Martin Luther King, Jr. helped found and became the first president of the

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• United Negro College Fund (UNCF)

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Which of the following civil rights demonstrations was the MOST famous of those organized by Martin Luther King, Jr.?

• the 1967 Birmingham Campaign

• the 1964 March on Washington

• the 1963 March on Washington

• the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March

Which of the following events propelled Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to national prominence as a civil rights leader?

• his imprisonment in Birmingham

• the Birmingham Bus Boycotts

• the 1963 March on Washington

• the Montgomery Bus Boycotts

Which of the following events was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. planning prior to his assassination?

• an appearance on national television

• a debate with Gov. Wallace

• a March for Peace in Vietnam

• the Poor People's Campaign

Which of the following consequences arose immediately after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination?

• the imprisonment of Civil Rights leaders "for their own protection"

• the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• violent race riots throughout the United States

• condemnation of the United States by the international community.