Question

Please help me with MLK questions!
1.
Why is Dr. King, after his lengthy tour through history, glad he is living in the second half of the 20th Century?

The time is right to end oppression by nonviolent means.
It is more possible now to obtain freedom now than in any other time.
ere is now a choice between violence and nonviolence.
The whole world is doomed.
2.
Dr. King says that slavery is prolonged by

the Pharaoh of Egypt
the willingness or apathy of the slaves
violence against the oppressed
dividing the slaves against one another
3.
Dr. King is rallying his followers in support of what group of workers?




4.
Name three weapons Bull Connor used against the protestors in Birmingham.


5.
How did the jailed protestors behave in the Birmingham jail?


6.
Dr. King claims that the “injunction” against the protest denies what three rights?


7.
Dr. King says that “over yonder” is all well and good, but blacks need help in the ___________________________.




8.
What collective power does Dr. King say the blacks have against white oppression?




9.
Name three companies Dr. King suggests boycotting for their unfair hiring practices.


10.
What terrible thing happened to Dr. King when he was signing his book?


11.
A young white girl wrote Dr. King to tell him she was glad he didn’t ____________________________ .




12.
In your own words, explain this statement: “. . . man can’t ride your back unless it is bent.”


13.
In a well-developed paragraph, paraphrase the basic ideas of Dr. King that were expressed in the two speeches you read.