#MLKDay

History is so important. To start our MLK Day story, I started at the beginning when Africans were brought to America to work in the fields as slaves. 

We talked about the Civil War where the Northern States & Southern States fought and Abraham Lincoln signing the "Emancipation Proclamation" into law. 

Even though they were free, the African-Americans were not treated fairly. 

They organized a boycott of the buses to protest the unfair bus policies. "That law was stupid" 

They held marches to protest the unfair treatment

Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech in Washington. 

The students drew a lot of parallels between MLK and Malala, who we read earlier this year. Both of them won Nobel Peace Prize. Both were shot. Both were advocates because things were not fair.