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‘I have a dream’: 12 HISD students participate in 25th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Oratory Competition
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HOUSTON – Today, the world celebrates civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. King’s fight for equal rights and social justice has been an inspiration for people of all generations.
The delivery of King’s “I Have A Dream” speech in 1963 will forever be a moment in our history that inspired change and brought about unity across the globe, even after his assassination in 1968. The speech has inspired several generations in Houston, so much so that an oratory contest happens every year in King’s honor.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) Twelve Houston Independent School District students shared their 2021 vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr s I have a dream speech during the district s annual oratory competition Friday, which also happened to be King s birthday.
He would have turned 92.
This year, students answered the question, How do you think Dr. King s teachings can help us today?
Fourth and fifth grade HISD students delivered original, three to five minute speeches inspired by the late civil rights leader. Students were judged on delivery, stage presence, content interpretation, and memorization.
The 2020-2021 finalists were:
Andrianna Harden, Bastian Elementary School, fifth grade
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