Alexandra Rain: Teach about more than Martin Luther King’s dream

There is a flame of fear that history will be taught the same way to children today as it was taught to me.

(AP Photo) In this file photo taken April 12, 1963 Rev. Ralph Abernathy, left, and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., right are taken by a policeman as they led a line of demonstrators into the business section of Birmingham, Ala. Arrested for leading a march against racial segregation in 1963, King Jr. spent days in solitary confinement writing his “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” which was smuggled out and stirred the world by explaining why Black people couldn't keep waiting for fair treatment.

| Jan. 19, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

Alexandra Rain: Teach about more than Martin Luther King’s dream

There is a flame of fear that history will be taught the same way to children today as it was taught to me.

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