Martin Luther King

Question 1

What was one probable cause of discrimination to black people?

Answer 1

One probable cause of discrimination to black people in America was free labour and money

Question 2

Name 3 types of discrimination faced by black Americans in the 1950s…

Answer 2

Segregation in housing, education, toilets, violence, racial slurs, not being allowed im schools

Question 3

What were MLKs reasons for campaigning against racism?

Answer 3

Rosa Parks being arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus. Also black people were treated as though they were inferior

Question 4

What were three peaceful methods that MLK used to fight racism?

Answer 4

-he was non-violent
-boycotts
-marches
-demonstrations
-gave huge speeches to large crowds

Question 5

When was the rule changed because of the boycotts?

Answer 5

Black people refused to use the buses at all until the rule was changed, which happened in 1956
because without the fares of the black people, the bus companies lost more than half of their income, as white people often travelled by car.

Question 6

When and where was MLKs most famous speech?

Answer 6

His most famous speech was delivered on the steps of the memorial to Abraham Lincoln, in Washington, in august 1963

Question 7

When did MLK die?

Answer 7

In 1968, when he was only 39, Martin Luther King Jr was shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee, by a white man named James Earl Ray. The civil rights movement went on