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News and Views: Yale and Penn Sign on to Observe the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

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From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Date: 20011031
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News and Views: Yale and Penn Sign on to Observe the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

This coming January, all but five of the nation's 27 highest-ranked universities will observe the national holiday to celebrate the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr: For the first time, Yale and the University of Pennsylvania will suspend classes on the holiday.

In 1983 Congress voted overwhelmingly to establish the third Monday in January as a national holiday to honor the birthday of civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Faced with a certain override of his veto, in 1983 ...

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