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Message: [QUOTE="Teacherdeb, post: 2520727, member: 3311"] As a teacher in Manchester CT, we always read about Dr. King’s time in Connecticut and discussed his life before he stepped up to be a leader in the civil rights movement and the choices he made. My understanding was that he was offered a position at Harvard and could have moved to Boston, and he and his family could have lived a very different life, a more anonymous, comfortable, middle class life somewhat insulated from the extreme bigotry of the South. Not that the North was free of racism, but less than the South. It’s probable that by choosing to step up as a civil rights leader, he understood there was a very strong chance he would be killed. Nevertheless, he followed his conscience. Trying to show my students the human inside the legend was important, to deepen their understanding of life. He had his flaws, but what an admirable human being. [/QUOTE]