Martin Luther King, Jr. Grade 3

Click on the links below to answer the questions. Your teacher will give you a worksheet to write your answers on.

Use the Martin Luther King timeline website and write yes or no after the following statements.

1. Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in 1929.

2. King was born in Mississippi.

3. King was married in 1942.

4. Dr. King published his first book in 1958.

5. Dr. King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C.

6. Dr. King won the Nobel Prize in 1965.

7. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a national holiday in 1966.

Go to the Enchanted Learning Website to answer the following questions about Martin Luther King, Jr.

8. In what state was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?

9. After graduating from college, Martin became a

10. In the 1950’s, Dr. King began working for ____ and ____.

11. Dr. King participated in the bus boycott in ____, _____ .

12. In 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. won what prize?

13. When AND where was Dr. King assassinated?