Monday, January 15, 2007

Happy Martin Luther King Day! (trivia answers)

  • A1) Atlanta, Georgia. MLK came into the world on January 15, 1929, the son of Alberta and Martin Sr., who was also a minister.
  • A2) Baptist. MLK first became a pastor in Montgomery, Alabama at age 24.
  • A3) "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation." (Lincoln was referring to the Declaration of Independence.)
  • A4) Lincoln Memorial. MLK gave his historic speech in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 to a group that he helped organized for a march in support of desegregation. His actions helped spawn the 1964 Civil Rights Act and earned him a Nobel Peace Prize
  • A5) 11. After saying, "I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream", he specifically listed six of his dreams and added, "I have a dream today" twice.
  • A6) Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray assassinated MLK on April 4, 1968, nine months before his 40th birthday.

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