The Day of Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist priest and spokesman for the non-violent movement in the struggle for civil rights. He did protest about the treatment of racial discrimination in federal and state law in the United States. But, because of the protests and criticism, Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.
After the death of Martin Luther King Jr., many people who want to serve his birthday as the federal holiday. But only became a federal holiday, after President Ronald Reagan signed legislation the Day of Martin Luther King Jr. on 2 November 1983. On Monday 20 January 1986, Day of Martin Luther King Jr. was celebrated in the first time in the United States as a national holiday. Some even refused to state a federal holiday for Martin Luther King Jr., including the suggested name or combine with another holiday. Until 1989, the day Martin Luther King Jr. only accepted by some of 44 states, and the first time officially celebrated in 50 states in 2000.
Day Martin Luther King Jr. is a holiday in the United States to commemorate the anniversary and services the Rev. of Martin Luther King Jr. This holiday falls on the third Monday in January, around his birthday on January 15. Martin Luther King Day is the only federal holiday in the United States that commemorates the African-American.
