Martin Luther King jr.

Question 1

What did MLK believe in?

Answer 1

Non-violent civil disobidience to achieve equality

Question 2

What protest methods did he use?

Answer 2

Sit-ins, boycotts, freedom rides and marches

Question 3

What was the SCLC

Answer 3

Southern christian leadership conference, was subsequent to Bus Boycott and King quickly became a leading member of the civil rights movement

Question 4

Why did the Birmingham march happen?

Answer 4

SCLC challenged city of Birmingham’s decision to close public recreational facilities to avoid de-segregation

Question 5

What was the city’s retaliation to the Birmingham marches?

Answer 5

Dogs, police batons and water cannons

Question 6

What was the President’s response to the violence?

Answer 6

Kennedy sent troops and Birmingham was forced to desegregate.

Question 7

What was MLK awarded in 1964?

Answer 7

Nobel peace prize for his work as a peacemaker

Question 8

When were the Selma to Birmingham marches? And why did they take place?

Answer 8

1965

> to demand equal voting rights, led to marchers being attacked by police and state troopers
- king was sent to jail

Question 9

What did the Selma to Birmingham marches result in?

Answer 9

The voting rights act being passed 1965

Question 10

what was the effect of his speech “ I have a dream” in 1963?

Answer 10

It was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in front of 250,000

put pressure on Kennedy to draft legislation

the civil rights act was passed in 1964

Question 11

Outline the role and significance of MLK.

Answer 11

> non violent civil disobedience

> bus boycott 1955

> SCLC

> Birmingham march 1963

> March on Washington Aug 1963

> Nobel peace prize 1964

> Selma to Birmingham march 1965

> assassinated 1968

Question 12

Why were King’s peaceful methods so important to the civil rights movement?

Answer 12

> if they had used violence the White racists could have argued that they were uncivilised and did not deserve the same rights as white people

> made the White protestors who attacked them look even worse- gaining sympathy for the movement

> it gained international respect and support for the movement

• 1964 Nobel Peace Prize was a recognition of this
• INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT was crucial in that it put pressure on the U.S. Government to be active in fighting inequality