This Week · Standing Up For Others · MLK Day
For littler ones: When someone is being treated unfairly, what helps you speak up for them?
This week we're wondering about standing up for other people. It's an easy thing to say and a hard thing to do — staying quiet is almost always easier. So when is it worth stepping forward anyway? It's a good one to turn over in the car or at the table, and a fitting one for the week of MLK Day, when the country pauses on a man who spent his life asking it.
This week's stories
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A boy named Martin growing up in Atlanta, learning early what it meant to be Black in Atlanta — where the signs and the laws said where he could sit, go to school, and walk, and where he started to wonder, out loud, why the world was arranged that way.
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While the men argued over a new country, Abigail Adams picked up a pen and reminded her husband John not to forget the women — who had no vote and no say in the laws they'd have to live under.
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A woman they called Mother Jones, who marched children out of the mills where they worked long days with bandaged hands, and walked them all the way to the door of a president.
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