Martin Luther King Day 2018: Nine quotes from the civil rights leader that still resonate today
’s birthday became a national holiday across America. But it took decades of campaigning for King’s civil rights legacy to be immortalised as a paid public holiday. In 1968, Congress was presented with a petition signed by more than 3 million people supporting demands for a holiday. Initially President Reagan resisted plans to make King’s birthday a , arguing it would lead to other groups and leaders to seek similar concessions. Republicans also claimed they were concerned King had an ‘inappropriate' sexual past and links to communism. But ...
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