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Test your Civil Rights knowledge with our
MLK Day Civil Rights Trivia Quiz

1) Who had the funniest name?
a) NAACP attorney and later Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
b) Birmingham Commissioner for Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor
c) SNCC president Stokely Carmichael
d) Alabama Governor Orval Faubus

2) Complete this famous lyric: "Say it now: I'm black and I'm ______."
a) blue
b) proud
c) mad as hell
d) emancipated

3) Which of the following did Martin Luther King, Jr. not write?
a) Letter from Birmingham Jail
b) The "I Have A Dream" speech
c) The "Checkers" speech
d) Beyond Vietnam

4) The legal principle of "separate but equal" overturned in Brown v. Board pertained to
a) segregation in public schools
b) artifical sweeteners at lunch counters
c) the patent status of Playtex's new Living Bra
d) Ozzie and Harriet Nelson's sleeping arrangements

5) How does MLK Day differ from most other federal holidays?
a) No postal service
b) Parades and speeches
c) 3-day weekend
d) Relative scarcity of white sales

Answers
1) D. Also, worst haircut.
2) B, you jive turkey.
3) C. Though it would probably have been a lot better if King had written it.
4) A. Either that or something about states' rights.
5) D. We have no idea why.

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