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Martin Luther King, Jr., The Fight for Freedom
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Published January 1, 2004
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Joanne Mattern
991 books26 followersMattern is the author of many books for children. Her favorite topics include animals, biography, and history. She lives in the Hudson Valley of New York State.
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December 24, 2022
[Due to life, I am beastly behind on my 2022 Reading Challenge. Luckily, I'm spending holidays at my mom's, and there's a slew of children's books lying around. So welcome to...
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Martin's work made many people angry. He was arrested more than two hundred times.
Talk about street cred.
The elementary school I attended was a small private school in the middle of downtown Atlanta, across the street from what would later be the Georgia Aquarium, so we had many field trips to historical civil rights sites in the South. My class even had a story hour once with the late Coretta Scott King not long before her passing. Looking back, I really took for granted how much of an understanding of Southern American history we students had at such a diverse and progressive school. My how quickly times can change.
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Martin's work made many people angry. He was arrested more than two hundred times.
Talk about street cred.
The elementary school I attended was a small private school in the middle of downtown Atlanta, across the street from what would later be the Georgia Aquarium, so we had many field trips to historical civil rights sites in the South. My class even had a story hour once with the late Coretta Scott King not long before her passing. Looking back, I really took for granted how much of an understanding of Southern American history we students had at such a diverse and progressive school. My how quickly times can change.
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November 26, 2020Date read: 11/3/20
Genre: Biographical nonfiction
Grade Range: 5-8
Reflection: This is a very inspirational book about Martin Luther King, Jr., and how he fought for equal rights. This diverse biography teaches about discrimination and the fight for equal rights.
Genre: Biographical nonfiction
Grade Range: 5-8
Reflection: This is a very inspirational book about Martin Luther King, Jr., and how he fought for equal rights. This diverse biography teaches about discrimination and the fight for equal rights.
August 26, 2019
Well written biography geared for elementary students.
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