Having read the notion that Martin Luther King, Jr. Day has something to do with national service, which seems to me to be far off the mark, I asked a representative 62-year old black woman, namely, Mrs. Dorothy Rozeff, what this day meant in her view. Her response was that Martin Luther King, Jr. led a civil rights movement. She pointed out that the day commemorates a movement that involved a large number of participants and represented a large fraction of Americans. Furthermore, that movement was led by a number of figures that should be acknowledged as important to its … Continue reading Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 21