Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Orlando
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A three-day weekend is coming up for Florida school students. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, Jan. 19, and public schools in all 67 counties will be closed for the day. The federal holiday is observed on the third Monday in January and was established in 1983, according to the National Constitution Center.
In honor of MLK Day, we sit down with historian Nicholas Buccola, author of One Man’s Freedom, to re-examine the concept of "freedom" by comparing the legacies of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and conservative politician Barry Goldwater.