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The chilly weather didn’t stop hundreds of people, including former mayor Wellington Webb and first lady Wilma Webb, from meeting at the “I Have a Dream” statue at the City Park Esplanade this morning, where they kicked off one of the country’s largest MLK celebrations.
As a state legislator, Wilma Webb was instrumental in pushing to make MLK Day a holiday in this state; it took her four tries before the Colorado Legislature finally approved creating a King holiday and Governor Richard Lamm signed the bill into law in 1984, establishing the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission…