1968 Sanitation Strike & Assassination of Dr. King | Black History Month Lesson

Perfect for Black History Month! This lesson provides more historical context for Dr. King's final days, spent bringing attention to a labor strike in Memphis, Tennessee, despite being deep in the midst of a national campaign to march on Washington, DC.

This lesson is distance-learning friendly and comes with a 14 slide PowerPoint with discussion questions and a clip from Dr. King's final speech, as well as scaffolded notes for students to track student engagement and an answer key.

You can easily adapt this lesson to be grade level appropriate from upper elementary to high school, due to the differentiated nature of the discussion questions and writing reflections.