The Civil Rights icon, whose work to end segregation and racism through nonviolence earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, is the only non-president with a federal holiday named in his honor. Every ...
ATLANTA — The MLK Day holiday is marked annually as a day of ... A large segment of the population has never known the calendar without an MLK Day -- but it's actually not quite as old as ...
Monday marks Martin Luther King 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 together ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waved ... of the holiday had a prolonged, difficult path to acceptance. The idea to establish a national holiday for the civil rights icon arose as the nation ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave ... of the holiday had a prolonged, difficult path to acceptance. The idea to establish a national holiday for the civil rights icon arose as the nation ...
While the holiday is a time-honored tradition, it had a prolonged path to acceptance. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the ...