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A thousand local elementary- and middle-school students sing before a crowd of 200 in Battell Chapel during an event in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on the 40th anniversary of the civil-rights leader’s assassination.
Kate Hawkins/Contributing Photographer

A thousand local elementary- and middle-school students sing before a crowd of 200 in Battell Chapel during an event in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on the 40th anniversary of the civil-rights leader’s assassination.

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