Salt Brook Students Learn About MLK's Role in Civil Rights Movement
On Friday, Joanne Catlett's sixth grade students' final lesson about the Civil Rights Movement focused on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., what he stood for, and his "I Have A Dream" speech.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 before 200,000 supporters of the Civil Rights Movement, calling for racial equality and an end to discrimination. His 17-minute “I Have A Dream” speech was part of Mrs. Joanne Catlett’s lesson to her sixth grade classes at Salt Brook Elementary School last week, focusing on the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement. “Yesterday, we watched a short video about the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement. We got to the part of the ‘I Have A Dream’ speech,” said Catlett, a Language Arts and Social Studies teacher, just before one of her four 6th grade classes began. “So today we’re actually going to read the speech because [the students have] been doing …
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