Wonder of the Week: Who was Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.?

Next Monday, we have no school for students because of Martin Luther King Day. We all love a day off, but what makes this day so special? For our Wonder this week we are answering the following questions:

• Who was Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.?
• What is segregation?
• What was the Civil Rights Movement?

Some of our ideas so far are:

"I think Martin Luther King was no different than a white person. He was treated like he was different and that he didn't fit in because of his skin color. I think segregation was when black people got on the bus they would have to sit on the back and white people would tell them to get up and give up their seats." - Kaden

"I think Doctor Martin Luther King wanted freedom so that white people didn't always have the better stuff. I think it's really not fair to the black people because they didn't get to go in the bathrooms or sit down on the bus." - Tucker

"I think that Doctor Martin Luther King Jr, stopped the way that the black people had to sit at the back of the bus and made it fair so that everyone had to share their seats so that they could all sit instead of the white people having their own seats." - Josh L.