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Quiz about Great Political Speeches Martin Luther King
Quiz about Great Political Speeches Martin Luther King

Great Political Speeches: Martin Luther King Quiz


The last public speech Martin Luther King ever gave was to support striking sanitation workers in the city where he would be assassinated the very next day. Please Note: This quiz contains some language that would not be acceptable for a modern audience.

by Snowman. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Snowman
Time
5 mins
Type
Quiz #
416,353
Updated
May 02 24
# Qns
16
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
14 / 16
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Awards
Top 10% Quiz
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You know, several years ago, I was in autographing the first book that I had written. And while sitting there autographing books, a demented black woman came up. The only question I heard from her was, "Are you Martin Luther King?" And I was looking down writing, and I said, "Yes." And the next minute I felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it I had been by this demented woman. I was rushed to Hospital. It was a dark Saturday afternoon. And that blade had gone through, and the X-rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my aorta, the main artery. And once that's , you're drowned in your own blood -- that's the end of you.

It came out in the New York Times the next morning, that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died. And I want to say tonight... that I am happy that I didn't sneeze. Because if I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1960, when students all over started sitting-in at lunch counters. And I knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the American dream, and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1961, when we decided to take and ended segregation in inter-state travel.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1962, when Negroes in , Georgia, decided to straighten their backs up. And whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent.

If I had sneezed I wouldn't have been here in 1963, when the black people of , Alabama, aroused the conscience of this nation, and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have had a chance later that year, in August, to try to tell America about that I had had.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been down in , Alabama, to see the great Movement there.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been in to see a community rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering.

I'm so happy that I didn't sneeze.

Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to .

And I don't mind.

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen . I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to !

So I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the of the coming of the Lord.
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Answer:

Black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee had been on strike over pay and equal treatment with white workers, for three weeks when Martin Luther King arrived to address a crowd in the city. King spoke eloquently about the need for the solidarity of a community in support of the workers and the need to stick together in non-violent protest.

He also spoke about the rumours of threats to his life that were being reported to him as he travelled from Atlanta to Memphis. Sadly, those rumours proved true when King was shot by James Earl Ray the following evening on the balcony of his motel. He died aged just 39 but his legacy outlived him, proving an inspiration to civil rights and racial justice campaigners across the world. Just one week after his death, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.

King referenced many of the landmarks of the civil rights movement in the course of his speech. The sit-in movement of 1960 was a series of protests against racial segregation by students at colleges in the southern states. They were inspired by the Greensboro sit-ins that had forced the Woolworth company to end its policy of racial segregation in its stores in the south.

The freedom riders were activists who took inter-state bus journeys to protest the continuation of unconstitutional segregation on public buses in the southern States.

The Birmingham campaign was a campaign of non-violent direct action in the Alabama city to bring about fair hiring practices in retail and government and to end segregation in schools. It was a follow-up to a less successful campaign in Albany, Georgia that had focused on voting rights for black citizens.

Selma, Alabama was the starting point for three marches to the state capital, Montgomery, by activists demanding the right to vote, which led to the Voting Rights Act of 1964.
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