Claiming Civil Rights

Claiming Civil Rights

The Civil War ended in 1965. The Union was saved. All Black persons in the former Confederate states were declared free. The former slaves had no material wealth, but a determination swelled within them to accomplish three goals:  to legalize their marital unions,...
Dwelling in the Shelter of the Most High*

Vulnerable Children No More

Third grade has been identified as important to reading literacy because it is the final year children are learning to read, after which students are “reading to learn.” If they are not proficient readers when they begin fourth grade, as much as half of the curriculum...

Recalling Prayer

Dr. King had only been at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama seven months, but in the quiet of the night, he sat at his kitchen ready to leave the city. He had been stopped and jailed by the police that afternoon for driving 30-mph on a 25-mph...