Civics question 113 of 128 65/20 set

Martin Luther King, Jr. is famous for many things. Name one.

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Background

Any one of these answers: fought for civil rights, worked for equality for all Americans, and worked so that people would be judged by their character rather than the color of their skin. King was a Baptist minister who came to national attention at twenty-six, leading the Montgomery bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955. He built his method on nonviolent resistance drawn partly from Gandhi, and he was jailed repeatedly, writing his Letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963 to answer clergy who called his timing unwise. He gave the speech containing that line about character at the March on Washington the same year, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, and was assassinated in Memphis in April 1968.

This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice to explain the civics fact. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and the official answer above is the one to give at the interview.

Where this question sits

It is part of Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information, inside the American History section of the test. It is also one of the 20 questions in the 65/20 set, so it is worth knowing well.

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