Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
A: Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist.
When was King born?
A: On January 15, 1929.
Where was he born?
A: In Atlanta, Georgia.
He was the second of how many children?
A: Three.
At his childhood home, King and his two siblings would
read aloud the Bible as instructed by whom?
A: Their father.
King's father would regularly use to discipline his
children?
A: Whippings.
At times, King Sr. would also have his children do
what?
A: Whip each other.
King memorized and sang hymns, and stated verses from
the Bible, by the time he was how old?
A: Five years old.
In September 1940, at the age of 11, King was enrolled
where?
A: At the Atlanta University Laboratory School for the seventh grade.
While there, King took violin and piano lessons, and
showed keen interest in what?
A: His history and English classes.
The high school that King attended was named after
whom?
A: African American educator Booker T. Washington.
In his adolescent years, he initially felt resentment
against whites due to what?
A: The "racial humiliation" that he, his family, and his neighbors often had
to endure in the segregated South.
In 1942, when King was 13 years old, he became the
youngest what?
A: Assistant manager of a newspaper delivery station for the Atlanta
Journal.
While King was brought up in a Baptist home, King grew
skeptical of what?
A: Some of Christianity's claims as he entered adolescence.
In high school, King became known for what?
A: His public-speaking ability, with a voice that had grown into an orotund
baritone.
On April 13, 1944, in his junior year, King gave his
first what?
A: Public speech during an oratorical contest, sponsored by the Improved
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World in Dublin, Georgia.
King became the most visible spokesman and leader in
what?
A: The civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
King participated in and led marches for what?
A: The right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights.
He oversaw the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later
became what?
A: The first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC).
King was one of the leaders of the 1963 March on
Washington, where he delivered what?
A: His "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the
Lincoln Memorial.
On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for
what?
A: Combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.
In his final years, he expanded his focus to include
opposition towards what?
A: Poverty, capitalism, and the Vietnam War.
In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of
Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was what?
A: Assassinated on April 4 in Memphis,
Tennessee.