The Nation - News from Jan. 8, 1987
The Liberty Bell will be symbolically rung and replicas in 50 states will toll Jan. 19 to celebrate the second annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and to call for universal peace, Coretta Scott King said. Other holiday activities include beginning a collection for a King time capsule to be buried in 1988, a student “Freedom Train” from New York to Atlanta and a worldwide radio tribute to the civil rights leader who was slain in 1968.
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