That Mike Pence and other standard-bearers within this movement can regularly lean on King's legacy is a consequence of how the civil-rights leader has been canonized. When President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law, in 1983"reversing his own objections to the holiday, and earlier ones to King himself"he signaled that America had accepted King […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM on January 21, 2019