Worksheets"Martin Luther King Jr." and "I Have a Dream" speech.
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 14mins
King was supposed to speak for four minutes, but he spoke for over 16
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This was the first time King had ever made an “I Have a Dream” speech.
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False.
Two-thousand marshals were planted in the crowd by the U.S. government to keep the peace.
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The actual name of the March was “The March on Washington for Freedom.”
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Martin Luther King Jr. was honored at the march by letting him go last to give the keynote address to the marchers.
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King had not planned on giving the speech that day; it was impromptu.
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False.
This was the first time King had ever said the phrase “I Have a Dream”.
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Martin Luther king Jr
advocated civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance.
advocated civil disobedience and violent resistance.
advocated for freedom by “any means necessary,”
The CLAIM of “ I Have a Dream” Speech is
The negro lives on a lonely island of poverty
The negro still is not free.
The negro needs a job
"I Have a Dream" Speech is consider a seminal document because
it was presented on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
It was presented by a civil rights leader.
it influenced the nation and provided a basis for its further development.
What is the phrase that best support the claim that "The negro still is not free".
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
“... the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination”.
This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (Note refers to the Declaration of Independence)
"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today..."
This is an allusion to
Mohandas Gandhi
Philip Randolph
Bayard Rustin
Abraham Lincoln.
