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In New Hampshire: "Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Day". [30] In Virginia: it was known as Lee–Jackson–King Day, combining King's birthday with the established Lee–Jackson Day. [31] In 2000, Lee–Jackson Day was moved to the Friday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday in its own King promoted nonviolent tactics that included the March on Washington in 1963. The third Monday of January is widely celebrated as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (or MLK Day), and is a federal holiday to honor the life and legacy of this great man. The day presents an opportunity to celebrate and honor Dr. King in notable ways. Between Martin Luther King Jr. Day being a relatively new holiday (it was made a federal holiday in 1983) and inaugurations only happening every four years, the two events have only lined up once Martin Luther King, Jr., Day is a holiday in the United States honouring the achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister and civil rights leader who advocated for nonviolent resistance against racial segregation. In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it. Despite his own personal reservations, President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on November 2, 1983—paving the way for Martin Luther King Jr. Day to be celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time on January 20, 1986. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. The holiday takes place on the third Monday in January, and has done so since it was first observed. Former President Ronald Reagan On the third Monday of the month — close to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Jan. 15 birthday — federal, state and local governments and various industries recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day. While the holiday is a time-honored tradition, it had a prolonged path to acceptance. Martin Luther King Jr. is widely revered as a towering figure in the history of our country and likely the best-known leader of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s. Depending on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is approaching quickly – Monday, Jan. 15 — and this year, the federal holiday falls on the actual birthday of the celebrated civil rights leader who was No, Martin Luther King is celebrated to remember the achievements of Martin Luther King who made a revolutionary idea of ending racial segregation. It is not celebrated as a day for unemployment. This year, the Inauguration Day holiday falls on Monday, January 21, 2013, which is also the legal public holiday for the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (See 5 U.S.C. 6103(c).) Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, the second child of Martin Luther King Sr., a pastor, and Alberta Williams King, a former schoolteacher. Martin Luther King Day also called MLK Day, King Day, and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Day is observed on the third Monday of January, which is close to King's actual birthday on January 15. The earliest Monday the holiday will ever be celebrated is January 15th and the latest is January 21st. Monday, February 3, 7:00 pm, Bailey Hall Doors open at 6pm. In person and via livestream. Free and open to the public. This year’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration will feature activist, writer and lecturer Angela Davis, speaking on the intersectional struggle for liberation today. Everybody who knows who Martin Luther King, Jr. is and what he did as a civil rights hero to contribute to freedom and equality for African Americans. But few people know that MLK was arrested almost 30 times fighting for what he believed in. His 'crimes' varied, and his arrests took place in various different cities in the south. 1929: 15 January: Michael King, later known as Martin Luther King, Jr., is born at 501 Auburn Ave. in Atlanta, Georgia. 1941: Summer: The King family — Martin Luther King, Sr. (Daddy King), Alberta Williams King, Willie Christine King, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Alfred Daniel Williams King (known as A. D. King) — moves from 501 Auburn Avenue to 193 Boulevard in Atlanta. While a certain docile, priestly Martin Luther King Jr. is trained into the minds of most Americans from a young age in classrooms, this is not the only space such a Martin exists: Hanging on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., in barbershops and across university campuses, with statues and sculptures in public parks The annual Martin Luther King Day Jr. Day parade and festival kicks off on Monday from 9 a.m. at Magic Island and goes through Waikiki, culminating at Kapiolani Regional Park, with a festival with March 21, 1965 to March 25, 1965. On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had been campaigning for voting rights.
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