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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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  • What did Mrs. Parks refuse to do on the bus?
    Surrender her seat to another passenger.
  • How did Dr. King help the African American bus riders in Birmingham, Alabama?
    He organized a boycott so that no one would ride the city buses.
  • True or False Many people disagreed with Dr. King's ideas and tried to stop him.
    True!
  • True or False Martin was killed when he tried to help sanitation workers demand better working conditions.
    True!
  • Integration means
    Bringing together people of different races.
  • True or False Dr. King was arrested and taken to jail.
    True!
  • True or False Rosa Parks was arrested and taken to jail.
    True!
  • Describe the event from Martin's childhood that shaped his life.
    The mother of his white friends told Martin he could no longer play with her children.
  • Segregation means
    Rules and laws that kept people of different races apart from each other.
  • As a boy, what did Martin want to be when he grew up?
    A minister of a church like his father.
  • Name the woman whose actions helped to change bus laws in Birmingham, Alabama.
    Rosa Parks
  • True or False Martin's mother taught him to read before he started school.
    True!
  • What job did Martin's father have?
    minister of a church
  • In what city and state was Martin born?
    Atlanta, Georgia
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