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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/martin-luther-king-jr-narrative-critiques/ by Derrick Alridge 2006] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/martin-luther-king-jr-narrative-critiques/ by Derrick Alridge 2006] | ||
During my years as a high school history teacher in the early 1990s, I observed the extent to which history textbooks often presented simplistic, one-dimensional interpretations of American history within a heroic and celebratory master narrative. | During my years as a high school history teacher in the early 1990s, I observed the extent to which history textbooks often presented simplistic, one-dimensional interpretations of American history within a heroic and celebratory master narrative. | ||
=====MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words===== | |||
[https://www.democracynow.org/2021/1/18/mlk_day_special_dr_martin_luther by DEMOCRACY NOW 18/1/21] | |||
Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. | |||
