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On the third Monday of the month, federal, state and local governments, institutions and various industries recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
In the good ole days—and I guess that statement dates me—national holidays and national recognition days came few and far between. January would pass by without much fanfare, and Abraham
Eleanor Roosevelt posing in the Sally Milgrim gown that she wore to her husband Franklin’s second inaugural festivities in 1937.
Monday marks a very different legacy, as well, that of Martin Luther King Jr., whose words and actions more than six decades ago on the opposite end of the Mall helped usher in a freer, more just and equal society for all Americans.
On the third Monday of January — close to King's Jan. 15 birthday — federal, state and local governments, institutions and various industries recognize