Martin Luther King Jr. Flashcards
OLYMPIC CITY ATTRACTIONS: Ebenezer Baptist Church on Jackson St. NE
Atlanta
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: (Yolanda King speaking) In 1960 my father, MLK Jr., joined my grandfather as co-pastor of this Baptist church in Atlanta
Ebenezer Baptist Church
U.S. HERSTORY: She joined hubby MLK Jr. in civil rights activism, taking part in the Montgomery bus boycott
Coretta Scott King
IT HAPPENED IN NOVEMBER: Abraham Lincoln delivered this November 19, 1863; it lasted all of 2 minutes
Gettysburg Address
CITIZENSHIP: Don’t complain, citizen, if you don’t exercise this fundamental right guaranteed by the 15th Amendment
The right to vote
HERSTORY: This woman in history is the subject of a biography called “Don’t Ride the Bus on Monday”
Rosa Parks
WHAT A YEAR!: Rosa Parks sat down for freedom
1955
WORKING WOMEN: When she quietly refused to give up her bus seat, Rosa Parks was on her way home from her job as one of these
seamstress
A YEAR ENDING IN 8: Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are assassinated
1968
THE FBI’s 10 MOST WANTED LIST: The list was already full, but this man was specially added in April 1968 after a high-profile Memphis murder
James Earl Ray
TRAVEL and TOURISM: This Alabama city’s National Voting Rights Museum includes exhibits on Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson
Selma
WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN I DIED?: Martin Luther King Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson
A “NON” CATEGORY: In 1964 Martin Luther King said this “is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time”
nonviolence
STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER: The state where Martin Luther King was born and the state where he married Coretta Scott
Alabama and Georgia
YOU CAN QUOTE ME: Martin Luther King reached a peak with “Free at last! Free at last!” These 3 words, “we are free at last”
Thank God Almighty