MartinLutherKing Jr. leads the Walk to Freedom through downtown Detroit on June 23, 1963. MLKDay will be observed on Jan. 20. Bettmann Archive The first holiday of the year was just a ...
Monday marks MartinLutherKing Jr. Day, the federal holiday that honors the life and legacy of the American civil rights icon who was assassinated in 1968. The holiday didn’t come ...
Only once before since it became a federal holiday has MartinLutherKing Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of ...