WorksheetsBCRI: Martin Luther King Jr. Trivia & Scavenger Hunt
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 41mins
Martin Luther King, Jr. is from this Georgia city?
Albany
Macon
Columbus
Atlanta
Martin Luther King, Jr. earned his High School Diploma at this Age?
15
18
17
16
With a B.A. degree in Sociology, Martin Luther King, Jr. graduated from this Historic Black College?
Clark Atlanta University
Morehouse College
Howard University
Morris Brown College
Martin Luther King, Jr. married Coretta Scott in this state on June 18, 1953?
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
Florida
Martin Luther King, Jr. integrated this Indian’s philosophy of non-violent resistance into his Christian beliefs?
Siddhartha Gautama
Deepak Chopra
Mahatma Gandhi
Sathya Sai Baba
After Rosa Parks is arrested this organization made Martin Luther King, Jr. the spokesperson for the Montgomery Bus Boycott and ultimately their president?
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Montgomery Improvement Association
What is the headline for the Chicago Defender January 5, 1957?
Segregation is Dead
Black People Want to sit at the Front of the Bus
Force Showdown Over Bus Bias
Martin Luther King, Jr. and several other Black clergymen, including Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, started this organization in 1957, M. L. King Jr. was its first president?
Congress On Racial Equality (CORE)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Montgomery Improvement Association
National Association Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
What day and year did Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, and A. Phillip Randolph lead a prayer pilgrimage to Washington D.C. to charge President Eisenhower with failing to lead the country toward integration?
May 17, 1957
December 25, 1956
March 4, 1956
What was Martin Luther King, Jr. acquitted of in Montgomery on May 29, 1960?
Parading without a permit.
Breaking segregated bus laws.
Obstructing a public passageway.
Tax Fraud
What date was Martin Luther King Jr. arrested with 50 others in Atlanta, GA?
January 16, 1924
October 19, 1960
December 4, 1956
Where is Martin Luther King, Jr. when he addressed throngs of people at a Civil Rights rally in Birmingham, AL (1963)?
Municipal Auditorium
Legion Field
St. Paul United Methodist Church
16th Street Baptist Church
April 12, 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested on
(a)
Who is shaking Martin Luther King, Jr.'s hand on the July 2, 1964 timeline?
President John F. Kennedy
President Jimmy Carter
President Richard M. Nixon
President Lyndon B. Johnson
What was the date Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize?
April 4, 1968
October 14, 1964
September 15, 1963
On what date did Martin Luther King, Jr. lead 3200 marchers from Selma's Brown Chapel to the Edmund Pettus Bridge (1965)?
March 21st
August 7th
May 21st
October 6th
When does Martin Luther King, Jr. lead anti-war Parade? (1967)
April 15, 1967
April 4, 1968
November 27, 1967
January 18, 1967
Who is the artist of the Martin Luther King, Jr. drawing "Dr. King Preaching?" (Back hallway)
Charles Busby
Charles Henry
Fredrick Jones
Fredrick Cargil
What is the date of the signing of legislation that named Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday a federal holiday?
(a)
Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth first name is
(a)
