1) Martin Luther King became the most important figure of the civil rights movement beginning in 1954. a) True b) False 2) The civil rights movement aimed to give African Americans rights that were completely new to all Americans. a) True b) False 3) The largest legislative impacts of the civil rights movement happened mainly because of grassroots protests. a) True b) False 4) The movement fought to stop both segregation and discrimination. a) True b) False 5) Major marches were one of the strategies used to pressure the federal government. a) True b) False 6) Federal law eventually granted new protections to all Americans, not only African Americans. a) True b) False 7) The 1963 March on Washington was organized without King’s involvement. a) True b) False 8) King won the Nobel Peace Prize because he supported violent resistance against racial inequality. a) True b) False 9) In the final years of his life, King expanded his activism to include issues related to poverty. a) True b) False 10) King’s assassination in 1968 triggered riots in several American cities. a) True b) False 11) Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a national holiday while King was still alive. a) True b) False 12) Many streets across the United States have been renamed in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. a) True b) False

Martin Luther King, Reading Comprehension Questions

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