



I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. In his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “The Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” including the section in which he wrote “the Negroes’ great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom… the white moderate.” Finally, students will consider how the Letter might offer some prescriptions for racism in 2021 and beyond. They will also be asked to consider some other signs of white supremacy and racism surrounding events leading up to, during and after the riot. In this lesson, students will be asked to examine some overt examples of racism at the Capitol Hill Riot on Jan. (Note: You will need to make a copy of the Google doc to edit it.) For a Google doc of this lesson, click here.
