Martin Luther King Jr. Flashcards

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OLYMPIC CITY ATTRACTIONS: Ebenezer Baptist Church on Jackson St. NE

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Atlanta

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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

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Ebenezer Baptist Church

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U.S. HERSTORY: She joined hubby MLK Jr. in civil rights activism, taking part in the Montgomery bus boycott

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Coretta Scott King

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IT HAPPENED IN NOVEMBER: Abraham Lincoln delivered this November 19, 1863; it lasted all of 2 minutes

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Gettysburg Address

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CITIZENSHIP: Don’t complain, citizen, if you don’t exercise this fundamental right guaranteed by the 15th Amendment

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The right to vote

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HERSTORY: This woman in history is the subject of a biography called “Don’t Ride the Bus on Monday”

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Rosa Parks

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WHAT A YEAR!: Rosa Parks sat down for freedom

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1955

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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

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seamstress

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A YEAR ENDING IN 8: Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are assassinated

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1968

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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

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James Earl Ray

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TRAVEL and TOURISM: This Alabama city’s National Voting Rights Museum includes exhibits on Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson

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Selma

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WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN I DIED?: Martin Luther King Jr.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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A “NON” CATEGORY: In 1964 Martin Luther King said this “is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time”

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nonviolence

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STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER: The state where Martin Luther King was born and the state where he married Coretta Scott

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Alabama and Georgia

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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”

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Thank God Almighty

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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”

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I Have a Dream

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“LAST” CHANCE: The last 3 words of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, they also appear in his epitaph

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Free at last

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I WANNA BE… : …like Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama & be honored with this humanitarian prize given in Oslo

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Nobel Peace Prize

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YOU CAN QUOTE ME: It’s the year Martin Luther King declared at the Lincoln Memorial, “I have a dream”

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1963

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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: While at Crozer Theological Seminary, King studied the nonviolent philosophy of this Asian leader

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Gandhi

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THE ’60s: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Freedom Walk in 1965 spanned the 50 miles between these 2 Alabama cities

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Montgomery and Selma

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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: In 1968 King was planning a second march on this city, to unite poor people

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Washington D.C.

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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: At age 15, Martin graduated from a high school named for this first head of Tuskegee Institute

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Booker T. Washington

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HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES: Stonewall Jackson’s, Robert E. Lee’s and Martin Luther King’s birthdays are observed in this month

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January