I started working last year of January at Dubuque Community School, and on my 2nd week, January 21st, I took the day off because of this Holiday Celebration, so- called Martin Luther King Day. I do not know King, I only know him as a founder of one religious organization, a religious icon. Being in the University (back in the Philippines)with a lot of student activists and protesters, his name is popular, I remember most intellectual group of students that time idolize Martin Luther King.
Who is this man that even had a National Holiday declared in his honor, an honor accorded to no other American, not Lincoln not Washington, not Jefferson (Washington and Lincoln no longer have holidays — they share the generic sounding “President’s Day”).
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