"Our o nly hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism...

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world."

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Teaching about Martin Luther King Jr.

Here are lessons and resources for students about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
and the Civil Rights Movement beyond "I have a dream."

	A Revolution of Values Teaching activity based on the text of a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. about the Vietnam War.
	Hidden in Plain Sight: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Radical Vision Lesson to introduce students to a wide range of speeches and work by Dr. King.
	The Limits of Master Narratives in History Textbooks: An Analysis of Representations of Martin Luther King Jr. A critique of the traditional textbook representations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
	At the River I Stand Documentary film on the African American sanitation workers' 1968 fight for human dignity and a living wage in Memphis, where Dr. King gave his final speech.
	Eyes on the Prize II Two segments of Eyes on the Prize II, Two Societies (1965-68) and The Promised Land (1967-68), introduce students to King's work on housing segregation in Chicago, the Vietnam War, the Poor People's Campaign, and the Memphis sanitation workers' strike.

More resources for teaching about Dr. King

Test and Increase Your Knowledge

Q: The struggle to make Martin L uther King Jr.'s

birthday a federal holiday took how many years?

Take our quiz to find out the answer to this question and more.

Books for Teaching about Dr. King

More books for the classroom about the Civil Rights Movement

Born this day in history: Julian Bond

January 14, 1940 - August 15, 2015

Photo by Harvey Richards.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the SNCC statement against the war in Vietnam. Because Julian Bond stood by that statement, the Georgia legislature would not allow him to assume his elected office, denying voters the right to the candidate of their choice. Learn more about Bond and read the comic book he wrote about the true history of the Vietnam War while he was fighting for the right to his seat in government.

Eyes on the Prize to Air

The award-winning documentary series about the Civil Rights Movement,

Eyes on the Prize, will re-air on the WORLD channel beginning
January 17.

See lessons and articles for teaching with Eyes on the Prize.

Harvey Richards Media Archive

Activist photographer Harvey Richards documented the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, farmworkers, and the anti-war movement. His films and photographs from the 1960s can be seen online at the Harvey Richards Media Archive.

Critical Focus, a collection of his photos, is available free for classroom teachers.

Subscribe to the archive's e-newsletter and receive a free digital rental of any film in the archive.

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