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Profile: Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King

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From: Morning Edition (NPR)
Date: 19990118
Author:BOB EDWARDS

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Profile: Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King

Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

BOB EDWARDS, host:

This is NPR's MORNING EDITION. I'm Bob Edwards.

Today is Martin Luther King Day. The minister and civil rights leader was born 70 years ago last Friday. Today's high school students were born about 15 years after he was assassinated, so they read about the Montgomery bus boycott, the March on Washington, the protests in Selma and Chicago in the same textbooks that cover World War I and World War II. For some students, the civil rights era may seem as distant ...

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