Manhattan Country School Students See Civil Rights Battles Still to Be Fought
Students at Manhattan Country School are establishing themselves as keepers of the Martin Luther King Jr. flame.
On Sunday, three students dazzled hundreds of people at the Brooklyn Museum by reading excerpts from their essays about civil rights, a tradition at the private school on East 96th Street.
And on Monday, the M.L.K. holiday, they braved the frigid temperatures to walk a self-designed freedom trail, stopping along the way for more eighth graders to read their essays aloud.
Manhattan Country School says its philosophy is “to ensure that our students have the knowledge, passion, and