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The Ohio Civil Rights Commission is excited to announce the submission period is open for our 2018 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Art, Essay, and Multimedia Contest! This year's theme is "Be the Change."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. studied many of the world’s great leaders and philosophers when framing his own beliefs. One of the most influential of those philosophers was Mahatma Gandhi, who Dr. King called, “the guiding light of [the] technique of nonviolent social change.” In 1959, Dr. King even travelled to India to walk in Gandhi’s footsteps and learn from Gandhi’s followers there. Dr. King and Gandhi shared the belief that love and peace are the best way to change the hearts and minds of the public. Both men understood that if they wanted to inspire their community to change, they had to make the same changes themselves. Gandhi said, “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.” Dr. King lived this philosophy by practicing peaceful protests instead of trying to counter hatred and violence with more of the same.
Art Winners: 6th Grade Art: Gabrielle Herlocher- Waggoner Road Junior High School 7th Grade Art: Mohammed Maalin - Waggoner Road Junior High School 8th Grade Art: Caroline Ryan - Waggoner Road Junior High School 9th Grade Art: Paige Householder - Arlington Local School 10th Grade Art: Selena Chen - Lakota East High 11th Grade Art: Taylor Smith - Washington High School 12th Grade Art: Cassandra Frederick - Garfield Heights High School Essay Winners: 6th Grade Essay: Genevieve Judson - Ontario Middle School 7th Grade Essay: Seth Stuber - Kimpton Middle School 8th Grade Essay: Anna Knauss - Bluffton Middle School 9th Grade Essay: Meagan Warren - Bexley High School 10th Grade Essay: Danielle Pratt - Westerville North High School 11th Grade Essay: Cody Gaham - Vantage Career Center 12th Grade Essay: Lane Moore - Dover High School Multimedia Winners: Multimedia: Emmet Looman, Eva Groff, Christine Shaw, James Shoemaker - Schilling School for Gifted Children
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