Webquest on Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 

Martin Luther King, Jr. played a major role in American History as he was the dominant force in the civil rights movement. Find out more about Martin Luther King’s life and the important political impact he made. Browse through the following websites to answer the follwing questions:

 

Biography:

http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9365086

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/king_martin_luther.shtml

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/king/biography.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/king/timeline.html 

 

Biography Quiz

 

1. King's father was which of the following?

(A) Preacher

(B) Novelist

(C) Sharecropper

(D) Doctor

  

2. How many siblings did King have?

(A) 5

(B) 3

(C) 0

(D) 2

  

3. Where was King born?

(A) Atlanta, Georgia

(B) Stockbridge, Georgia

(C) Montgomery, Alabama

(D) Memphis, Tennessee

  

4. When King first went to college, he was considering which professions?

(A) Novelist or Poet

(B) Teacher or Social Worker

(C) Nurse or Research Assistant

(D) Doctor or Lawyer

  

5. Where did King meet Coretta Scott?

(A) Selma, Alabama

(B) Boston, Massachusetts

(C) Chester, Pennsylvania

(D) New York City

  

6. Which African nation did King visit in 1957?

(A) Ghana

(B) Ethiopia

(C) Mali

(D) Egypt 

 

7. What was the name of King's first book?

(A) Stride Toward Freedom

(B) Dreamer

(C) Why We Can't Wait

(D) We Shall Overcome

 

 8. Where did King deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?

(A) At Ebenezer Baptist Church

(B) In front of the Atlanta City Hall

(C) At the Lincoln Memorial

(D) At the Nobel Prize ceremony

 

9. Which presidential candidate did King endorse in 1964?

(A) Lyndon Johnson

(B) Barry Goldwater

(C) Robert Kennedy

(D) Richard Nixon

  

10. Where did King receive the Nobel Peace Prize?

(A) Oslo, Norway

(B) Stockholm, Sweden

(C) Frankfurt, Germany

(D) Bern, Switzerland

  

11. To what city did King move at the beginning of 1966?

(A) Watts, California

(B) Trenton, New Jersey

(C) Detroit, Michigan

(D) Chicago, Illinois

  

12. At the end of his life, what issue did King begin to address that did not relate directly to civil rights for African Americans?

(A) Women's Rights

(B) The treatment of migrant workers in California

(C) The Vietnam War

(D) The rights of Native Americans

  

13. In his final years, King turned his attention from issues strictly political to issues that were what?

(A) Ethical

(B) Economic

(C) Spiritual

(D) Aesthetic

 

14. What year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?

(A) 1960

(B) 1963

(C) 1968

(D) 1973

 

15. Where is King buried?

(A) Atlanta, Georgia

(B) Memphis, Tennessee

(C) Birmingham, Alabama

(D) Montgomery, Alabama

   

Civil Rights Quiz

 

1. The United States Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were legal in which 1896 court case?

(A) Plessy v. Ferguson

(B) Brownsville

(C) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

(D) Roe v. Wade

  

2. Whose act of defiance began the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

(A) Fred Shuttlesworth's

(B) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s

(C) Ralph Abernathy's

(D) Rosa Parks's

 

3. How long did the boycott last?

(A) A day

(B) About a week

(C) About a month

(D) About a year

  

4. Which president signed the first major civil rights act of this century?

(A) John F. Kennedy

(B) Lyndon B. Johnson

(C) Richard M. Nixon

(D) Ronald Reagan

 

5. The Birmingham demonstrations led to which piece of federal legislation?

(A) The Civil Rights Act of 1964

(B) The Voting Rights Act of 1965

(C) The Twenty-first Amendment

(D) The Twenty-second Amendment

 

6. About how many people marched on Washington on 28 August 1963?

(A) 250,000

(B) 100,000

(C) 10,000

(D) 25,000

 

 

 

Speech "I have a Dream":

This is Martin Luther King's most important and most famous speech.

 

Listening:

Download the text below.

I_have_a_dream.pdf

 

Then, go to the following website, listen to Martin Luther King's speech, and fill in the gaps in the text.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

 

Comprehension:

To make sure that you have read the speech carefully, go to the website below and answer the questions:

http://grammar.about.com/od/tests/a/readquizdream.htm

 

 

Quiz on Martin Luther King:

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9801/tw-king.html