Unlike every other American holiday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day has ideas of peace and social justice at its core. Most civic holidays in the United States--like Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veterans Day--remember wars and the war dead. Labor Day's original purpose and meaning [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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