How did Martin Luther King Jr. Day become a federal holiday? Here's the history
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How did Martin Luther King Jr. Day become a federal holiday? Here's the history
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is observed yearly on the third Monday in January, but the push to make a federal holiday honoring him was controversial.
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