Selma Bonus Quiz

What award is MLK given at the beginning of the film?

• TIME Man of the Year

• Presidential Medal of Freedom

• Kennedy Center Honors

• Nobel Peace Prize

What does Annie Lee Cooper (Oprah) attempt to do early on in the film?

• Sit in the white section of the bus

• Register to vote

• Eat at a lunch counter

• Enroll her daughter in classes at the white school

What issue does the President ask MLK to help him with in their first meeting?

• The war on poverty

• Support for the Vietnam War

• Limiting the influence of the Black Panther Party

• Passage of a civil rights act

When MLK and SCLC meet with the two leaders of SNCC in Selma, MLK outlines the THREE main points to their tactics. Check all three points

• Negotiate

• Humiliate

• Demonstrate

• Resist

What organization had been leading the movement in Selma for two years before MLK arrived.

• CORE

• NAACP

• SNCC

• SCLC

Who surprisingly comes to visit Coretta Scott King? He says he is a different man, but willing to play the bad guy if it helps MLK.

• John Lewis

• Huey Newton

• Stokely Carmichael

• Malcolm X

What happens to Jimmy Lee Jackson during the night march?

• Killed by police

• Arrested and jailed for over a week

• Beaten by KKK

• Disappears, never to be seen again

Who is the President during the film?

• Kennedy

• Johnson

• Nixon

• Eisenhower

Who is called in to try and break up Coretta's and Martin's marriage?

• FBI

• KKK

• Mayor of Atlanta

• James Orange

Where is the march from Selma planned to end?

• Atlanta

• Mobile

• Montgomery

• Birmingham