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Jon Elliston is the lead contributing open government reporter at Carolina Public Press. Contact him at jelliston@carolinapublicpress.org.
As Martin Luther King Day celebrates the anniversary of the civil rights leader’s birth, government files show more about his brief but weighty times in Western North Carolina.
