Tale of two youths killed by hate brings King's legacy to life

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130119/NEWS/701199939/1694#tale-of-two-youths-killed-by-hate-brings-king-s-legacy-to-life

By Julie Anderson

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KENT SIEVERS/THE WORLD-HERALD Brownell-Talbot students pass by a banner of Emmett Till. The school will feature an excerpt of a play about Emmett and Anne Frank at its observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.


Any good teacher knows students can start to tune out even the best of lessons if they're delivered the same way year after year.

So this year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Brownell-Talbot School in Omaha is shaking up its exploration of the slain civil rights leader's message of peace and racial tolerance.

The school's commemoration will include a 10-minute excerpt from a play called “Anne and Emmett,” which features an imaginary conversation between two teenage victims of intolerance and hatred: Anne Frank and Emmett Till.

Anne is known to millions who have read the diary she wrote before her death in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945 at age 15.

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