MLK Jr. Trivia
Think you're on the same wavelength as the Dreamer? Prove it with MLK Jr. trivia that swings from epic speeches to landmark laws.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
When his Montgomery home was bombed during the 1956 bus boycott with his wife and 7-week-old inside, were any injuries reported?
No
After a 1934 trip to Germany, who changed five-year-old MLK Jr.'s name from Michael King Jr. to Martin Luther King Jr.?
His father
Besides poll taxes, what voter suppression test—often requiring citizens to interpret constitutional clauses—did the 1965 Voting Rights Act ban nationwide?
Literacy tests
In 1963, where did MLK Jr. and the SCLC lead a nonviolent campaign that faced Bull Connor’s dogs and fire hoses, shocking the nation?
Birmingham
About how old was he when he first encountered segregation, after Atlanta neighbors barred his white playmates from seeing him?
Six