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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

2026

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ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS

Grades 1-3 Topic:
In Jacqueline Woodson’s book ‘The Other Side,”
two girls, one white, one black, become friends despite the fence separating them.

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Claire Audet
Kean Elementary
Third Grade - Mrs. Erika Ratliff

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Kiyansh Gunikuntla
Kean Elementary
Third Grade - Mrs. Erika Ratliff

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Preston Oyer
Green Elementary
Third Grade - Mr. Maibach

Grades 4-6 Topic:
Was Dr. King’ decision to use thousands of black schoolchildren to protest in downtown Birmingham in 1963 too risky?
 

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Emmett Ramseyer
Green Elementary School
Grade 5-Mr. Maibach

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Irelynn Cutlip
Montessori School Wooster
Grade 6 - Ms. Michelle Mann

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Breylin Friend
St. Mary School
Grade 6-Miss McAllister

Grades 7-9 Topic:
What was the effect across the nation of black school children facing fire hoses and police dogs in downtown Birmingham in 1963?

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Andrew Zvolensky
Wooster High School
Grade 8 - Mr. Michael Sexton

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Kanishka Gunikuntla
Edgewood Middle School
Grade 7 - Ms. Courtney Robinson.

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Emma Gatten
Green Middle School
Grade 8 - Mr. Maibach

Grades 10-12 Topic:
Was Dr. King’s Birmingham Campaign the turning point in the Civil Rights Movement?

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Gunner Curtis
Orrville High School
Grade 11 - Dr. Dziczkowski

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Kymber Bishop
Rittman High School
Grade 11 - Dr. Dziczkowski

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Charlotte Cerniglia
Waynedale High School
Grade 11 - Dr. Dziczkowski

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