What We Get Wrong About MLK Quiz

(Video) To what did people compare the quiet before the "I Have a Dream Speech"?

• The calm before the storm

• Being at church before the sermon

• Before the Super Bowl started

• Being in a meadow in spring

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(Video) M.L.K. Jr. started (BLANK) then (BLANK) and inspire people.

• talking very quietly/yelling loudly

• singing church songs/reading poetry

• reading a script/dropped it to "preach"

• asking questions/answered questions

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(Video) M.L.K. Jr appealed to which major idea in his "I Have a Dream Speech?"

• A call that we can be better than this

• A call for working with Malcolm X

• A call for unity among the demonstrators

• A call for peaceful protest

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(Video) How many people went to the March on Washington?

• Quarter of a billion

• 3 million

• 300 thousand

• Quarter of a million

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How did the government describe M.L.K. Jr in this article?

• "an amazing leader" and "one of the most important figures of the 20th century."

• "an agitator" who "is pushing civil rights to far"..."in the modern age."

• "demagogic" and "the most dangerous...to the Nation...from a standpoint...of national security."

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What figure, who we watched pay tribute to M.L.K. Jr., signed off on the "intrusive surveillance" and spying on him and the civil rights movement?

• John F. Kennedy

• Malcolm X

• Robert F. Kennedy

• Richard Nixon

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What modern movement does the author compare the Civil Rights Movement to, saying that people then and now were just a critical of each movement?

• Black Lives Matter

• Democratic Socialists

• DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival)

• MAGA (Make America Great Again)

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What are some statistics showing how people at the time, not just southerners, opposed the Civil Rights Movement? (3 answers)

• 90 % of people in the south hated the civil rights movement.

• Only 22% of people approved of the Freedom Riders and other protests.

• 75% of black people were opposed to sit ins.

• 57% thought that sit ins and freedom buses hurt the cause.

• 80% of polled New Yorkers were opposed to school pairings to promote school desegregation.

Congressman John Conyers was deluged (flooded with or sent a lot of) with what after hiring Rosa Parks? (3 answers)

• hate mail

• nooses

• voodoo dolls

• watermelon

• swastikas

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Which situations that we've discussed do you think this quote applies to? (3 answers)

• Spartacus and the 3rd Servile (slave) Revolt

• Parvana's family escaping the Taliban in "The Bread Winner"

• Electing a new president in the United States

• The Plebeians refusing to fight for the Patriarchs in Ancient Rome.

• Russia annexing (adding/taking) the Crimea from Ukraine in 2014

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