Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke at Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center to mark Monday’s national holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. While King fought to end segregation, he also pressed for better jobs, health care and education — all issues that remain important today, Sanders said on Sunday at the gathering in Burlington, Vt. Sanders’ message echoed his observations in August on the occasion of the 50^th anniversary of King’s famous march on Washington. A student at the University of Chicago in 1963, Sanders traveled to Washington, D.C., and was in the massive crowd on The Washington Mall for King’s I Have a Dream speech.

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