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Monday, January 15, 2007

Students generally ignorant of who Martin Luthor King was

Here's a disheartening article in the Washington Post.

Despite Lessons on King, Some Unaware of His Dream - washingtonpost.com

In a recent survey of college students on U.S. civic literacy, more than 81 percent knew that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was expressing hope for "racial justice and brotherhood" in his historic "I Have a Dream" speech.

That's the good news.

Most of the rest surveyed thought King was advocating the abolition of slavery.

I also posted here yesterday about King.Tom Faranda's Folly: Why Martin Luthor King's "I Have a Dream" speech resonates

Monday, January 15, 2007 |

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