We’ve all heard of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the historic march from Selma to Montgomery. What’s often less spoken about is King’s fight for better wages for underpaid factory workers in Atlanta and his Vietnam War protest.
– We’ve all heard of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, protesting for civil rights. What’s often less spoken about is King’s fight for better wages for underpaid factory workers in Atlanta and his Vietnam War protest.“We posthumously romanticize now,” said Dr. Lawrence Scott, assistant professor of educational leadership at Texas A&M San Antonio.“At the time near his death, they did a Gallup poll in 1960.
“For instance, in 1964, he’s fighting for the Atlanta Scripto Pen factory. Some of the workers -- he was fighting for better wages for them. Or in 1966, he did the open housing campaign again to eradicate redlining and integrate neighborhoods,” Scott said.“He was saying, how are we sending our young Black men 8,000 miles to liberate South East Asians? But then they come home to Georgia and East Harlem, and they still face some of the marginalization and inequities,” Scott said.
“What I’ve learned is when students do not see themselves in the curriculum, they are not engaged,” Scott said.
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