Smithsonian Podcast with Kevin Young, Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
The following educational resources include lesson plans and research materials for teaching the connections between Dr. King’s speeches and Langston Hughes’s poetry. Links to other speeches by Dr. King and the poetry of Hughes are also included as well as a video of a celebration of the two men presented by Rocky Mount, North Carolina’s own Imperial Centre. The dedication ceremony for the grand opening of the History Exhibit in Rocky Mount can also be viewed, and a podcast is available that explains the connections between the poet and the preacher.
“I Dream a World” GoogleDoodle
Origins of the Dream: Hughes’s Poetry and King’s Rhetoric
The Imperial Centre Celebration: Origin of the Dream
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