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Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service official government site King Holiday and Service Act of 1994 Archived December 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at THOMAS Remarks on Signing the King Holiday and Service Act of 1994 , President William J. Clinton, The American Presidency Project, August 23, 1994
When is Martin Luther King Jr. Day? The federal government shuts down on the third Monday of every January for the day to honor Martin Luther King Jr.. This year, that day is Jan. 20. The holiday ...
Independence Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration When: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday If you’re in Independence, head to the Truman Building on 416 W. Maple Ave. for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day ...
King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.
In 1994, Bernstein collaborated with Harris Wofford and Congressman John Lewis to launch the King Day of Service, an initiative to encourage volunteer participation in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. The initiative was later incorporated into Global Citizen, a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 to promote civic engagement on local and ...
The Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday on Monday honors the civil rights leader who was born Jan. 15, 1929. This would have been his 95th birthday.
The Center for Food Action held a Day of Service Snack Pack Event on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at Community Baptist Church in Englewood, N.J. on Monday Jan. 16, 2023.
United States House of Representatives vote on the bill United States Senate vote on the bill. During the 90th Session of Congress following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, Senator Edward Brooke and Representatives John Conyers and Charles Samuel Joelson introduced multiple bills that would create a holiday to honor King on either January 15 or April 4, but none ...