Craig Gordon

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There's So Much More to MLK Than 'I Have a Dream'

There's more to Martin Luther King and his ideas than one very famous speech.


Back in 2001, I was trying to get my eleventh grade U.S. history class to focus on a passage from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Unfortunately, I was not surprised when a student protested, "We already know about him. We're tired of hearing about Martin Luther King."

So I asked, "Okay, what do you know about him?"

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