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Martin Luther King Jr. Day Web Search

Instructions: Using your iPad, do a quick search on one of the four events below, and write one or two sentences about it to tell to your table.

(Links to all of these are on Mr. Harless’s website under Civil Rights Movement)

a.  Brown v. Board of Education-1954 Supreme Court decision

b.  Jackie Robinson, 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers-first Black in Major League Baseball

c.  Emmett Till, 1955-victim of racial violence

d.  Little Rock Nine, 1957-Black students attend a white high school

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Take a few moments and discuss the four searches and learn from your tablemates about the other three. What was like like for Black Americans in the early 1950’s?

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Now, working with a partner, use the websites below, and answer the questions below about Dr. King’s life. You will need to go to more than one site to answer all of the questions.

http://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr-9365086

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/life-and-words-martin-luther-king-jr-part-1-2

http://www.drmartinlutherking.net/martin-luther-king-biography.php

1. When and where was MLK born? ______

2. What was Dr. King’s original first name?______

3. In what profession was MLK? ______

4. Who does King marry? ______

5. In the year 1955, what famous civil right boycott began?

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6. Whose arrest triggered the beginning of the boycott mentioned in #5?

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7. How did Dr. King get involved? ______

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8. Dr. King’s philosophy in battling for equal rights for Black Americans was

non-______. He was inspired by two people: the

American author Henry ______and the Indian Mahatma ______

9. King spends a month in India to study what? ______

10. What was King arrested for in Birmingham? ______

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11. When was the March on Washington and what was the name of the speech given by King? ______

12. In what year did King receive the Nobel Peace Prize? How old was he?

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13. The march from Montgomery, Alabama to Selma was for what and when did it take place? ______

14. What Act was written and signed by whom in 1965?______

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15. Dr. King attacked what American war as racist and showed prejudice against poorer Americans?______

16. In what year did Dr. King lead protesters in Memphis?______

17. Dr. King's last speech is called what? ______

18. Dr. King was assassinated when and where? ______

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While you search, some videos about Dr. King and his time will be on the front screen, as well as a retelling of D. King’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech.

Final Question-

Why do you think that the U.S. celebrates the birthday of Dr. King?

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