Dr. King and the March

Describe Dr. King and the March on Washington.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 71

Martin Luther King, Jr., grew up in Atlanta, in a family of pastors, at Ebenezer Baptist Church. You can visit that neighborhood today.
Dr. King believed in nonviolence, an idea learned from Gandhi of India. Protest firmly, don't strike back, and show the country what's unjust.
Young people joined in. In 1960, college students sat down at whites-only lunch counters and refused to leave. In Birmingham, children marched. Television showed police turning hoses on them.
On August 28, 1963, about 250,000 people of all races gathered in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington, asking for jobs and freedom.
At the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King shared a dream: that children would one day be judged by their character, not the color of their skin.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

SS5H6.b — Explain the key events and people of the Civil Rights movement: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and civil rights activities of Thurgood Marshall, Lyndon B. Johnson, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr.