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Working-Class Hero
Jones, William P. | January 30, 2006 issue

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This article discusses Martin Luther King Day and the New York City Transport Workers' Union. The failure of the Metropolitan Transit Authority to recognize King's birthday was seen as evidence of a lack of respect for the mostly African-American, Latino and Asian-American members of the union by Roger Toussaint, president of the union. A bill was introduced to make King's birthday a national holiday by Representative John Conyers in 1968, just four days after his death.

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MARTIN Luther King, Jr., Day; KING, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; HOLIDAYS; LABOR unions; TOUSSAINT, Roger; NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State)
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