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This 23-card flashcard set covers key dates and events in Martin Luther King Jr's life, along with related civil rights history for eighth graders. Topics include Dr. King's birth year and place, educational background, death date, his wife Coretta Scott King, and prominent African American historical figures like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sally Ride. Use it for history review, test preparation, or classroom discussion during civil rights units.

Subject:
Social Studies
Topic:
History
Grade Level:
8th Grade
Updated March 2025

Terms in This Set

  • What year was Martin Luther King day declared as a National Holiday
  • What is the date that Dr. King died?
  • What is the name of Dr. King's wife?
  • What year and where was Dr. King born?
  • What college did Dr. King attend
  • This Philadelphia born scholar wasthe first African American to be awarded in 1907 a Rhodes scholarship the world's most prestigious grant for advanced study at Oxford University
  • In 1882 Booker T Washington founded this college to train African Americans as teachers and train in agriculture and industry
  • The Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary opened in 1881 and later changed its name to this
  • The first African American Catholic College located in New Orleans, Louisiana
  • This theological seminary in 1867 changed its name and became first black school to establish Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional Schools
  • An inventor and engineer who invented a device that revolutionized sugar processing
  • Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967
  • In 1947, this Baseball great was the first African American allowed to play in the major leagues
  • One of the first people to reach the North Pole in 1909 with Admiral Peary
  • He received the Spingarn Medal for his pioneering research in Fertilization and Cell Division. An outstanding research biologist, he devoted a lifetime of study to structure and function of animals function
  • Helped hundreds of slaves flee to the North to freedom via the Underground Railroad
  • Invented the folding cabinet bed & first patent obtained by an African American woman
  • She refused to give up her seat on a bus
  • The first African American woman in space
  • The first black U.S. Congresswoman
  • "My parents shared not only an improbable love; they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They imagined -- They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren’t rich, because in a generous America you don’t have to be rich to achieve your potential."
  • "Racism must die. The economic exploitation by this country of non white people around the world must also die."
  • As part of her last will and testament, she stated, "I leave you, finally, a responsibility to our young people. The world around us really belongs to youth for youth will take over its future management?"

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