Family and others carrying on Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy of equality, justice and nonviolent protest want Americans to ...

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

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He ...

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.

January 20 marks Martin Luther King ... day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer and improve their communities,” according to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History ...