Virginia school district chooses to retain the names of two school that honor men who were willing to give their lives to create a slaveholding republic. Way to stand up for your students. #CivilWarMemory https://t.co/zg56KkQeh4
— Kevin M. Levin (@KevinLevin) April 11, 2018
4th Quarter Individual Project
Please read carefully the entire assignment and bring any questions you have to class.
ICYMI: the 50th Anniversary of MLK's Death
THE 1968 MEMPHIS SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE AND THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING
Memphis, Spring 1968 marked the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights movement. At the River I Stand skillfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation workers into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This 58-minute documentary brings into sharp relief issues that have only become more urgent in the intervening years: the connection between economic and civil rights, debates over strategies for change, the demand for full inclusion of African Americans in American life and the fight for dignity for public employees and all working people.