January 15, 2024 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day. King’s actual birthday was on January 15. April 8, 1968 – Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) introduces legislation for a federal holiday to commemorate King, just ...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was fond of saying, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” It has been a bumpy but steady path toward true civil rights for all in America.
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 assassinated more ...
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Sixty years ago, my father marched for freedom and equality. Martin Luther King Jr. led a generation of civil rights activists and advocates in pursuit of a more just future. Sixty years later, we are ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as “a great ...
“This is not a black holiday; it is a people’s holiday,” said Coretta Scott King after President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law on Nov. 2, 1983. But in the complicated history of ...
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