Explore the Impact of This Great Civil Rights Leader
Black history is American history. But if you, like many educators, would like to call special attention to black history in February, please consider using our lesson plan built around the text of David Dinkins’s “Martin Luther King, Jr.” This selection is in the anthology To Be a Hero, part of the Literature & Thought series, produced in partnership with Perfection Learning.
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