It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel. It took 15 years until it became a ...

On Nov. 2, 1983, then President Ronald Reagan signed the bill named the “King Holiday Bill” that forevermore set the third ...

This year's MLK Day also falls on Inauguration Day for President-elect Donald Trump, marking only the second time in 28 years that these federal observances align. The last time the two dates ...

January 20 marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday that ... Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., introduced legislation to create a federal holiday honoring King on April ...

1929-1968 In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr ... Days after King’s assassination in 1968, a campaign for a holiday in his honor began. U.S.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is an annual federal holiday to honour the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a very ...