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Martin Luther King: early life and family

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  • What was MLK's first name?
    Michael
  • What was Coretta worried about?
    That white people would kill her husband
  • Which president abolished slavery?
    Abraham Lincoln
  • What jobs (2) did Coretta Scott do?
    Singer, secretary
  • When is Martin Luther King's day?
    January 15 (his birthday)
  • How many children did MLK have?
    3
  • Who burned the bus of civil rights fighters?
    Ku Klux Klan
  • What is the difference between MLK and Malcom X's way of protesting?
    MLK = non-violent, Malcom X = violent
  • Who was Martin Luther, after whom MLK was named?
    A great religious leader in Germany in the 1500s.
  • Where was MLK born?
    Atlanta, Georgia
  • What was the job of MLK's father?
    A preacher
  • What did MLK learn from Gandhi?
    To love his enemies and to change an enemy into a friend
  • "It was the angriest I have ever been in my life." Which event is MLK talking about?
    The moment he had to get up in a bus for two hours so that white people could sit.
  • What was the condition of black people in the South?
    Most of them were poor with low-paid jobs
  • Where did MLK study when he was 15?
    Morehouse College
  • Why did Coretta become MLK's secretary?
    Martin wanted her to stay home when their children were born (before, she was traveling around the world)
  • What type of preacher was MLK's grandfather?
    Baptist (Protestant)
  • What happened on the train back to Atlanta in 1945?
    MLK had to eat at the back of the dining car with a cloth in front of his face
  • Who inspired MLK to change his ideas?
    Mahatma Gandhi
  • At the age of 17, what did King decide to become?
    A preacher
  • How did black people live in the North?
    Like white people (use the same entrance, go to every restaurant)
  • When and how did MLK learn about the difficult life of black people in the US?
    When he was five and he was playing with a white boy. The parents of the boy told King to stop playing with their son.
  • Name 2 things that MLK loved at school
    Sports, language, reading books
  • What was the name of MLK's wife?
    Coretta Scott
  • Why was MLK not able to spend a lot of time with Coretta and the children?
    He was busy with the civil rights campaign
  • When was Martin Luther King born?
    January 15, 1929
  • How did MLK's father test his son's desire to become a preacher?
    He told him to preach in his church the next Sunday
  • When was slavery abolished in the USA?
    1865
  • True or False: Martin Luther King became a President of the USA?
    False
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