{"id":20942,"date":"2000-01-11T15:35:14","date_gmt":"2000-01-11T20:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=20942"},"modified":"2017-02-22T17:15:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T22:15:31","slug":"mlk-readin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2000\/01\/11\/mlk-readin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates and USM\/LA to sponsor Martin Luther King Jr. &quot;read-in&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and to celebrate multiculturalism and diversity in a local community school, the Bates College Center for Service-Learning and the University of Southern Maine&#8217;s Lewiston-Auburn College (LAC) will co-sponsor a &#8220;read-in&#8221; by faculty, staff and students for grades 4-6 at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18, and Wednesday, Jan. 19, at Martel Elementary School on Lisbon Street in Lewiston. In case the schools close due to inclement weather, snow days for the &#8220;read in&#8221; will be 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 25, and Wednesday, Jan. 26.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Volunteers will read one-on-one or in small groups to students for approximately 30 minutes. Volunteers will then distribute the books, each with a civil rights or African-American history theme, to every child as a memento of the day, according to &#8220;read-in&#8221; coordinator Amy Keith, an AmeriCorps*VISTA member at both Bates and LAC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and to celebrate multiculturalism and diversity in a local community school, the Bates College Center for Service-Learning and the University of Southern Maine&#8217;s Lewiston-Auburn College (LAC) will co-sponsor a &#8220;read-in&#8221; by faculty, staff and students for grades 4-6 at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18, and Wednesday, Jan. 19, at Martel Elementary School on Lisbon Street in Lewiston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[130,220,11009],"tags":[5709,10897,8991],"class_list":["post-20942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-service","category-the-college","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-day","tag-mlk-day-read-in","tag-usmla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92363,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942\/revisions\/92363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}