Annual Martin Luther King Day History Quiz

Annual Martin Luther King Day History Quiz

Due to discrimination and anti-Black bias, many Americans don't know enough about this great man. Try these quiz and you can see how little the schools, news media and establishment have told you about the only American with his own holiday.

1) Name the judge who has sealed King's FBI surveillance file until the year 2027.

A) The Honorable John Lewis Smith, Jr.

2) According to whose 1989 biography did King spend his last night on earth in an adulterous liaison?

A) Reverend Ralph Abernathy. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

3) According to whose 1989 biography did King spend his last morning on earth physically beating a woman?

A) Reverend Ralph Abernathy. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

4) Who was the U.S. Attorney General who ordered the FBI to wiretap King?

A) Robert F. Kennedy

5) Who was the Assistant Director of the FBI who wrote a letter to Sen. John P. East (R-NC) describing King's conduct of "orgiastic and adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be bestial in his sexual abuse of women."

A) Charles D. Brennan

6) Who called King a "hypocrite preacher."

A) President Lyndon B. Johnson

7) What U.S. newspaper reported that King had plagiarized his doctoral thesis at Boston University.

A) The Wall Street Journal

8) Whom did King plagiarize in more than 50 complete sentences in his doctoral thesis?

A) Dr. Jack Boozer

9) What institution concluded that King had plagiarized his doctoral thesis?

A) Boston University in 1991.


10) Who was the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities who purposely suppressed knowledge of King's plagiarism of his doctoral thesis?

A) Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard Cheney

11) What was Martin Luther King's real name?

A) Michael King, Jr. In 1935 his father, Michael King, declared to his congregation that he wound henceforth be known as Martin Luther King and his son would be known as Martin Luther King, Jr.

12) In his first public sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1947 who did King plagiarize?

A) Harry Emerson Fosdick

13) Name the man who served as King's personal secretary from 1955 to 1960, had joined the Young Communists League at New York City College in 1936, went to prison for draft evasion in 1944, and in 1953 was sentenced to 60 days in jail in California "lewd vagrancy and homosexual perversion."

A) Bayard Rustin

14) According to whom had King "privately described himself as a Marxist."

A) His biographer, David J. Garrow

15) Who edited King's book Stride Toward Freedom?

A) Communist Stanley Levison

16) Who made the following speech?

That's exactly what we mean--
from every mountain side,
let freedom ring.
Not only from the Green Mountains
and White Mountains of Vermont
and New Hampshire;
not only from the Catskills
of New York;
but from the Ozarks
in Arkansas,
from Stone Mountain
in Georgia,
from the Blue Ridge Mountains
of Virginia
--let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States,
but for the disinherited of all the earth--from every mountainside,
LET FREEDOM RING!

A) Archibald Carey, 1952. Snopes.com and other apologists see no similarities between this speech of 1952 and the famed King address entitled "I Have a Dream."

No questions correct means you are exactly the kind of citizen your masters desire.

1-3 questions correct means you could be dangerous.

4-6 questions correct means you need electro-convulsive therapy.

7-10 questions correct means you are a hater.

11 or more questions correct means you are a terrorist. Turn yourself in now for re-education and your life will be spared.

Happy slain civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!