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Day of Service - January 20, 2025
Album Description
To encourage students to participate in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service (this year on January 20, 2025) share some primary sources that showcase volunteerism by school children during challenging times. I've added a few of my favorites to the album. Please add yours.
Students in our schools are focusing on the Southern California fires.
Essential question:
How can we support schools and peers impacted the devastating Southern California wildfires?
Meeting a Challenge:
Develop and implement a community-driven initiative to provide support for students and schools affected by the Southern California wildfires.
Service outcome:
Students identified organizations who would accept donations and set up money collection jars in classrooms, at sporting events and parents night. They also communicated the locations of collection boxes on our LMS and in the school newsletter.
Martin Luther King JrSan Juan Bautista, California. Schoolchildren collecting scrap metal for the war. Japanese-American children who had not yet been evacuated from the area participated in the scrap collection drive
Salvage. School children get in the scrap. The school children of America were officially organized for a nationwide salvage program starting on Monday, October 5, 1942. The children are going into the field as a junior army engaged in a major campaign for victory. Plans included the laying out of definite areas in each community to be assigned to specific groups of children. Plans were also made for holding meetings, collecting scrap, storing it and getting it to central points for shipment. Roanoke, Virginia has already gotten its program underway. This is one of the first official pictures of the school salvage campaign (taken in Roanoke where it is actually in operation) and it presents a fair sample of what is taking place all over the country. This picture shows children receiving instructions in school, after which they will be made lieutenants, sergeants, corporals, etc., and undertake the actual collection of scrap metal, rubber, fats and greases
Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school
Clean-up and fire prevention. Members of the Junior Red Cross aid their communities by participating in clean-up and fire-prevention campaigns
[Girl Scout in canoe, picking trash out of the Potomac River during Earth Week]
Helping Hoover in our U.S. school garden
Preparation for point rationing. An eager school boy gets his first experience in using war ration book two. With many parents engaged in war work, children are being taught the facts of point rationing for helping out in family marketing
San Juan Bautista, California. Schoolchildren parading with scrap metal they have collected for the war
Boy Scout Campaign
United Nations Fight for Freedom : colored, white and Chinese Boy Scouts in front of Capitol, They help out by delivering poster to help the war effort
Montage of Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
Teaching Notes
Montage from this Library of Congress image:
Martin Luther King, Jr half-length portrait, facing left, speaking at microphones, during anti-war demonstration, New Your City / World Journal Tribune photo by Don Rice.
Manpower, junior size. "Neither rain nor snow...nor gloom of night...stays these couriers from the completion of their appointed rounds." Junior commandos of Roanoke, Virginia, these two young girls are making their weekly rounds of all available scrap in their neighborhood, despite unfavorable weather
Manpower, junior size. This gingham-clad member of the nation's junior army, in Roanoke, Virginia, would rather rummage through a musty attic for scrap rubber and metal than play hopscotch-- when her country needs all the scrap that she and thirty-million other school children can collect
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Word Art
