Fifty years ago, one of America’s key civil rights leaders — the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was assassinated outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
As we honor King’s legacy on the January 15 federal holiday, the quiz below, from the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio, provides an opportunity to test your knowledge of the civil rights leader.
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About the Writer 
Peter Myers is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire and a member of the Ashbrook Center’s Master of Arts in Political Science and Government program faculty.