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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
Several events
planned by state
for MLK holiday
The Associated Press
Parades, recitals and addresses
by U.S. Attorney General Janet
Reno and a former United Na
tions ambassador are among the
activities planned around Texas
to commemorate Martin Luther
King Jr. Day.
King, a Baptist minister, would
have been 65 Saturday. The na
tional holiday is Monday. King
preached "nonviolent resistance,
and in 1964 won the Nobel peace
prize for leading the blacks' civil
rights struggle in a nonviolent
manner.
Despite his anti-violence
stance King was gunned down
April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.
He died at age 39.
In honor of his holiday, Ms.
Reno will visit sites in Port
Arthur and Fort Worth Monday.
She'll address the American Cele
bration of Civil Rights in Port
Arthur in the morning, and the
Martin Luther King Multipurpose
Center in Fort Worth in the after
noon.
The Dallas Park and Recreation
Department is sponsoring several
activities, many of them for chil
dren, to mark the day. The celebra
tion includes free refreshments,
films about Dr. King, art and essay
contests and a parade. A dance
recital and basketball tournament
are scheduled for later in the night.
Admission to all events is free.
In San Antonio, the Martin
Luther King Jr. Freedom March is
scheduled to proceed along Martin
Luther King Drive.
In Plano, Andrew Young will
be the featured speaker Tuesday at
a Martin Luther King Day pro
gram called "Capitalizing on Dr.
King's Dream ... Winning Togeth
er."
Young, the longtime mayor of
Atlanta, is the co-chairman of the
Atlanta Committee for Olympic
Games. He is also a former United
Nations ambassador.
Several have already spoken
out or paid tribute to King.
In San Antonio Saturday, a rally
organizer said an undying opti
mism has sustained minorities in
the 30 years since King led his
march.
"One of the things most minori
ty populations have is a thing
called hope," said Nancy Bohman,
chairwoman of the 1994 Martin
Luther King March. "They say to
themselves, "Most things are go
ing to get better. I'm going to get
better, and the world will get bet
ter.'"
On Friday, the Rev. Gardner
Calvin Taylor, dubbed by
Newsweek magazine as "the dean
of African-American preachers,"
said King would "weep that we've
done so little with the dream he
left us."
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ATLANTA — This ninth annual holiday honoring
the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. still finds supporters of
the observance struggling to win credibility for King
Day.
All 50 states are observing the holiday Monday. But
most companies do not give workers the day off. Sup
porters say part of the reason is the holiday is per
ceived as a day for blacks.
"That's a perception we need to change," said Alan
Minton, director of the Martin Luther King Federal
Commission in Atlanta, which was created to encour
age observance of the day. "There's no need for the
federal government, the state government and corpo
rations to give off a day if it just belongs to just one
group."
"The white community has not embraced the holi
day as much as they possibly could, but they certainly
are embracing it more and more," he said.
A survey in 1990 found that only 18 percent of For
tune 500 companies observed King Day. That number
is slowly increasing, Minton said.
"Every year we do see some progress in the obser
vance of the holiday," said Greg Moses, a spokesman
for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent
Social Change, the center led by Mrs. King. "Consider
ing that it's been less than 10 years since the holiday
began, I think we're reasonably pleased with the
progress but hope things can continue to improve."
A spot check of a several corporations found that
General Motors and Atlanta-based Coca-Cola observe
the holiday, while IBM, AT&T, and Turner Broadcast
ing System allow workers to take the day off as a per
sonal holiday.
"Just as we think Columbus Day is an important
day and Abraham Lincoln is an important day, so is
Martin Luther King Day," said Burke Stinson, a
spokesman for AT&T. "Our employees seem to appre
ciate the option of picking and choosing what holiday
of a religious nature or civic nature they may so
chose."
Stinson estimated that 10 percent of AT&T's work
force takes King Day off.
"King Day came after all these other days and how
many days do you add before you deduct from vaca
tion and sick days?" asked Jon Goodman, director of
the Entrepreneur Program at the University of South
ern California School of Business Administration and
an expert on business practices.
"If you look at the 18 percent that do give the Mar
tin Luther King Day off, you will find there is another
holiday they are not getting off."
Kaspin Alii, an associate professor of business at
Clark Atlanta University business school, said money
is the issue.
"If they give the day off, they still must pay em
ployees," Alii said.
In attempt to increase the popularity of the holiday,
supporters are suggesting King Day is a time for com
munity service.
King's widow, Coretta Scott King, says the nation
must confront businesses that promote violence, rang
ing from gun makers to video arcades, in order to re
duce violent crime.
"We must recognize that while violence is ultimate
ly committed by individuals, it is promoted and en
couraged by a massive violence industry," Mrs. King
wrote in an article published in Sunday's editions of
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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