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Children celebrate MLK through art at Long Island Children's Museum

Children present their finished artwork at a workshop

Photo credit: Amy Oronato Amy Oronato

In a small classroom on the second floor of the Long Island Children’s Museum, a group of children and their parents sat silently and listened to an excerpt of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

When the speech was over, Education Program Coordinator Stacy Lee asked the children what the speech meant to them.

“He said that he wants to have freedom,” Lee Hochman,...

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