Honoring King

According to the text, when did Martin Luther King Jr. give speeches and organize peaceful marches and protests?

• on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

• when King was growing up

• on January 15, 1929

• during the 1950s and 1960s

What does the author provide in the section titled “A Civil Rights Hero: Martin Luther King Jr.”?

• a list of important events about Martin Luther King Jr.

• a list of important events in the civil rights movement

• a list of important events of the Montgomery bus boycott

• a list of important events happening during Martin Luther King Jr. Day

When King was older, he worked to change those unjust laws. During the 1950s and 1960s, he gave speeches and organized peaceful marches and protests. Beginning in 1955, King led the famous Montgomery bus boycott. For 381 days, African Americans boycotted, or refused to use, public buses in the Alabama city. A year later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was illegal.

What can you conclude based on this information?

• King's organized marches and protests usually ended in rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court.

• King boycotted the buses in Montgomery because segregation on buses had been allowed.

• The Montgomery bus boycott was the only protest that King organized in his lifetime.

• In addition to African Americans, many white people also boycotted the Montgomery buses.

Based on the text, what was probably true about Martin Luther King Jr.?

• He thought equality under the law would be very hard to achieve in the South.

• He inspired people to be violent if they needed to draw attention to problems of segregation.

• He used peaceful means to achieve widespread change for Americans.

• He felt marches, protests, and boycotts were not effective ways to bring about change.

What is this text mainly about?

• the life of Martin Luther King Jr., how he was treated, and how he is remembered today

• the civil rights work of Martin Luther King Jr. and how it should be celebrated

• the hardships faced by African Americans in the segregated South

• the Montgomery bus boycott and other famous civil rights events

to refuse to buy, use, or go into, in order to protest or bring about a change

• protest

• illegal

• boycott

• community

the practice of keeping people apart especially people of different races

• boycott

• service

• legacy

• segregation

Legacy

• the popular person that the majority of people like

• anything contributed or created by someone who is longer living and continue to be an influence

• serving for a community

• its legal for someone to do something