Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jeopardy

King was born in this Georgia city on January 15, 1929.

What is Atlanta?

King's name at birth was this, until his father changed both of their names in 1934.

What is Michael King?

At just 15, King enrolled at this historically Black men's college in Atlanta.

What is Morehouse College?

King earned his doctorate in systematic theology in 1955 from this university in Massachusetts.

What is Boston University?

King graduated as class valedictorian in 1951 from this Pennsylvania seminary.

What is Crozer Theological Seminary?

King's wife, a trained singer and activist, founded the King Center in Atlanta after his death.

Who is Coretta Scott King?

King and his father served as co-pastors of this Atlanta church.

What is Ebenezer Baptist Church?

King's commitment to nonviolent resistance was shaped by this Indian leader, whose country King visited in 1959.

Who is Mahatma Gandhi?

In 1957 King helped found this organization of Black ministers and served as its first president.

What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

In 1954 King became pastor of this Montgomery church, a short walk from the Alabama State Capitol.

What is Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?

King delivered this speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963.

What is I Have a Dream?

Written in 1963 in response to eight white clergymen, this open letter was composed while King was behind bars.

What is Letter from Birmingham Jail?

King's first book, published in 1958, told the story of the Montgomery bus boycott.

What is Stride Toward Freedom?

King's final speech, delivered in Memphis on April 3, 1968, is known by this title.

What is I've Been to the Mountaintop?

King's 1964 book about the Birmingham campaign argued against telling Black Americans to be patient for their rights.

What is Why We Can't Wait?

King was assassinated in this Tennessee city in 1968.

What is Memphis?

King rose to national attention leading a 381-day bus boycott in this Alabama city.

What is Montgomery?

The 1965 marches for voting rights set out across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from this Alabama city.

What is Selma?

King was shot on the balcony of this building, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum.

What is the Lorraine Motel?

In 1966 King moved into an apartment in this Northern city to campaign against housing discrimination.

What is Chicago?

King received this international award in 1964 and gave the prize money to the civil rights movement.

What is the Nobel Peace Prize?

In 1977 King was posthumously awarded this, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President Jimmy Carter.

What is the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

Time magazine named King its Man of the Year for this year, the year of the March on Washington.

What is 1963?

At King's memorial in Washington, D.C., his figure emerges from a granite block given this name.

What is the Stone of Hope?

The sculptor who carved the statue at King's memorial, Lei Yixin, comes from this country.

What is China?

Martin Luther King Jr. Day always falls on this day of the week.

What is Monday?

The federal holiday was first observed nationwide in this year, three years after the bill creating it was signed.

What is 1986?

This president signed the bill creating the federal holiday in 1983.

Who is Ronald Reagan?

This musician's 1980 song Happy Birthday helped build public support for the holiday.

Who is Stevie Wonder?

A 1994 law asked Americans to treat the holiday as a day on, not a day off, by making it a national day of this.

What is service?