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MLK Day’s Long Island origins
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MLK Day’s Long Island origins
John Mobley said it was time to tell his story as he leaned back in a chair at his kitchen table in Westbury. “I’ve been thinking about this for quite some time,” Mobley said. In 1970, Mobley convinced his employers at Publishers Clearing House in Port Washington to allow workers to take off for Martin Luther King’s birthday, 13 years before it was made a national holiday. Mobley set the scene—he had just gotten back from serving in the Vietnam …
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