I Cannot Desert My Post (Grades: 6 to 12)
Program Type: School Museum Theater
Known to many as the first martyr to the anti-slavery movement, Elijah Parish Lovejoy lived and worked in St. Louis while fighting for the destruction of slavery. His newspaper business was repeatedly vandalized and his presses destroyed. This did not stop him, however. He moved his paper to the Illinois side of the river where, ultimately, he was murdered by an angry mob. Hear of his passion for the anti-slavery movement and the freedom of the press in his own words through one of his final editorials that even today is considered one of the pillars of American literature.
(GLE: CA 3, 1.6, 1.7, 2.4, 1.1, 1.2; SS 1.6, 1.8, 1.1, 2, 3, 1.9, 1.5)
Known to many as the first martyr to the anti-slavery movement, Elijah Parish Lovejoy lived and worked in St. Louis while fighting for the destruction of slavery. His newspaper business was repeatedly vandalized and his presses destroyed. This did not stop him, however. He moved his paper to the Illinois side of the river where, ultimately, he was murdered by an angry mob. Hear of his passion for the anti-slavery movement and the freedom of the press in his own words through one of his final editorials that even today is considered one of the pillars of American literature.
(GLE: CA 3, 1.6, 1.7, 2.4, 1.1, 1.2; SS 1.6, 1.8, 1.1, 2, 3, 1.9, 1.5)