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Discovery News: Martin Luther King Day

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From: Asian Pages
Date: 19970131
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Asian Pages
01-31-1997
Discovery News: Martin Luther King Day.

By MARY LOU MURRAY, CSJ

January 20 is a holiday we will observe this year in the United States. It is called Martin Luther King Day. Who is Martin Luther King, Jr. and why do we have a special day for him?

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a black man. He was born January 15, 1929. He worked hard to have laws changed in the United States. Many laws did not let black men and women do things that the white people could do. Black people had to sit in the back of the bus in the states of the South in our country. Black people could not eat ...

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