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Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Teaching Honest History

Martin Luther King Jr. is the most iconic figure of the Civil Rights Movement, but the narrative around his life and work is often oversimplified in classrooms and public discourse. We invite you to expand the narrative and teach a more complex and comprehensive view of Dr. King and a more honest history of the United States. Check out these Learning for Justice resources to better understand King’s strategies and goals, the context of the movement for equality and civil rights, and the work that remains to be done.

January 8, 2024

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Teaching the Movement’s Most Iconic Figure

Episode 7, Season 3 You cannot teach the civil rights movement without talking about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But it’s critical that students deconstruct the mythology surrounding the movement’s most iconic figure to...

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Teaching About King’s Radical Approach to Social Justice

While Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work is often sugarcoated, it’s important to teach that King championed economic justice and taught Black self-love while also pushing back against neutrality, imperialism and systemic racism.

Collage of various important Civil Rights Movement figures.

Teaching the Civil Rights Movement

A curriculum framework for teaching Black Americans’ struggle for freedom and equality from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ’60s to the present.