Answers to Martin Luther King Quiz

1. C. King admired Gandhi very much and travelled to India in 1959.

2. C. Rosa Park was arrested on Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Her arrest led to a year-long bus boycott by blacks who hoped to desegregate the bus system.

3. D. His first book, Stride Toward Freedom, was published when he was just 29 years old.

4. E. The first sit-in took place a a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960. This protest was a key moment in the civil rights movement.

5. D. He gave his often-quoted "I Have A Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial to the quarter-million people who turned out for the 1963 March on Washington.

6. B. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his work leading non-violent protests for civil rights.

7. B. He was assassinated during his visit to Memphis following a speech he gave in support of a strike by Black sanitation workers.

8. E. Medger Evers, leader of the NAACP, was murdered in 1963. Martin Luther King was killed in 1968.

9. A. James Earl Ray was tried and convicted for the murder of Martin Luther King. He spent 30 years in prison, during which time he continued to proclaim his innocence. Some of Martin Luther King's closest associates and family also believed James Earl Ray was not guilty of the murder and came out in support of a new trial. They wanted the true killer to be brought to justice. However, James Earl Ray never got a chance to have a second trial; he died in prison of liver cancer at the age of 70.

10. D. Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2 of that year. In November, 1983, more than 15 years after Dr. King was killed, President Ronald Reagan signed the law creating the Martin Luther King Holiday.