Roosevelt and Congress made it into a federal holiday, largely because of lobbying done by the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal and charitable organization. There's been a push to ...

Delaney said in an interview with the Catholic fraternal organization the Knights of Columbus: Everybody knows that Columbus was trying to find gold, but they don’t know what the gold was for ...

Roosevelt proclaimed the national holiday in 1937, mostly because of lobbying from the Knights of Columbus. At first, it was on Oct. 12 each year, but that changed to the second Monday in October ...

Columbus Day has been a federally recognized holiday since 1937 amid lobbying efforts from Italian American groups such as the Knights of Columbus.

The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization, lobbied state legislatures to declare Oct. 12 a legal holiday and in 1907, Colorado became the first state to do so. President ...