The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is always scheduled to take place ... and Tennessee calls it Confederate Decoration Day. Alabama has a state holiday for Confederate President Jefferson Davis on the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated annually on ... the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955–1956. The 381-day protest integrated the Alabama city’s public transit in one of the largest and ...

The Baptist minister first came to national prominence during the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama ... finally succeeded in making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a nationally observed holiday.

“Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the only federal holiday designated ... voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.” Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr ...

Martin Luther King Day is the celebration of the civil rights activist's birthday that falls in January. However, the federal ...

As a holiday, federal offices will be closed and those workers will have a paid day off, according to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. When is Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025? This year ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday honoring the life and birthday of an icon of America's civil rights movement, ...