March on Washington Teaching Resoruces

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Tara Mack

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Aug 27, 2013, 10:55:55 AM8/27/13

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Hello Educators,

I recently posted information about The Speech, a new book on the March on Washington and Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech that would be a useful teaching resource for the classroom (http://www.haymarketbooks.org/hc/The-Speech). The book is short, engaging, accessible and contains thoughtful analysis about race and racism in America in the 50 years since the speech.

There are now some new teaching resources associated with the book that I thought might be of interest.

This is a link to an interactive website with images, text and video commentary from the author, Gary Younge, about the March and the speech.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/aug/martin-luther-king

This is a link to three short videos in which Gary puts the March and the speech in historical context.

http://wearemany.org/v/speech-part-1

This is an author interview by Teaching Tolerance: http://www.tolerance.org/blog/seeing-our-heroes-human