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1.  What was Martin Luther King working to change in America?  __________________________________________
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2.  What types of service projects will people perform on Martin Luther King Jr. Day? _________________________
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http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/news/story/0,28277,1705018,00.html

3. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929.  What was his birthday?  _______________________________________ .

4. What well-known speech did Dr. King deliver in 1963 during the March on Washington? _________________________
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5.  How many people attended the demonstration? _______________________________________________________ .

6. On what date was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated? __________________________________________________ .

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs216.html

7. What prize did Martin Luther King Jr. win in 1964?___________________________________________________

8. What did he do with the money from the award? _____________________________________________________
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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

9. Why was Dr. King arrested in 1963?  _____________________________________________________________
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10.  How did Dr. King fight the law that required blacks to ride in the back of the bus in Alabama? ____________________
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11.  How long did the protest last? ________________________________ .

12.  How did Dr. King go about making changes in the Civil Rights movement? ______________________________________
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13.  What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do? __________________________________________________________
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14. In the "I Have a Dream Speech", Dr. King said, “I have a dream that one day my four little children will be judged
not by the color of their skin,  but by the __________________________________________________________________.”

15. What does that mean? ______________________________________________________________________________
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Choose http://www.usemb.se/, and go to Key Embassy Links on the right.  Choose U.S. and Swedish Holidays and Martin Luther King Day. 

Something to Think About: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated when he was just 39 years old. How do you think the world 
might be different today if Dr. King was still alive?  (write on the back)