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MLK
for Saturday
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| MLK's wife | Coretta Scott |
| MLK's highschool | Booker T. Washington High School |
| Foreign figure MLK compared to | Gandhi |
| goal of Southern Christian Leadership Conference | equality for blacks |
| What did MLK win in 1964 | Nobel Peace Prize |
| age MLK was when kicked out of school | 5 |
| What two grades did MLK skip | 9 and 11 |
| How did professors at Morehouse describe him | As an underachiever |
| @ Morehouse college, MLK was exposed to a work that greatly influenced his philosophy and then influenced his, "Letter to Birmingham Jail" what was it? | Henry Thoreau's Civil Disobiedience |
| Title of MLK's doctaral dissertation, which he was awarded by Boston University? | A comparison of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Wieman |
| "Nothing in the world is more stupid than ________________" | Sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity |
| What political party was MLK | Republican party |
| In his, "I have a Dream" speech, how did he say he dreamt that you or I should not be judged in America? | Would not be judged by the color of our skin but by the content of their character |
| Year MLK national holiday first reserved? | 1986 |
| What did the supreme court declare to be unconstitutional in 1956 | Segregation of buses |
| where was MLK assassinated? | On the bacolny of the Lorraine motel in Memphis Tennessee |
| When is MLK day celebrated? | Third Monday of January |
| what year was the NAACP founded? | 1909 |
| What inspired MLK to help fight for Civil rights? | He saw injustice in segregation |
| what position did MLK accept after his father? | Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church |