Students mark MLK Day with powerful program

A student-organized assembly in honor of Martin Luther King Day helped remind Greenhills students Friday about some of the bitter injustices that helped drive the civil rights movement.

The program, organized by the Middle School Diversity in Action club and coordinated by Greenhills’ Director of Diversity Nadine Hall, also featured brief talks from students honoring Dr. King and the late Nelson Mandela.

Students showed a powerful documentary telling the stories of many participants in the civil rights struggle. The program aired recently on the History Channel, and some of the people featured in the video can be seen here, as well.

The program served to remind students, who attend a school that was created near the height of the struggle for civil rights and diversity, that the fight for justice isn’t ancient history.