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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, by David J. Garrow (Morrow, 800 pp., $19.95)

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, who used to have national holidays to themselves, are left with only a merger celebration called Presidents’ Day. But the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. has, by virtue of congressional action, a day all his own.

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John Chamberlain (1903–1995) was an American writer.

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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, by David J. Garrow (Morrow, 800 pp., $19.95)

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, who used to have national holidays to themselves, are left with only a merger celebration called Presidents’ Day. But the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. has, by virtue of congressional action, a day all his own.