Martin Luther King Jr. Day is approaching quickly – Monday, ... The timing is also in line with the Uniform Holiday Act of 1968, ... after Congress passed the King Holiday and Service Act.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is ... nearly 20 years after it was introduced to Congress, per the King ... become the first states to enact statewide King holidays, but Congress failed to act on ...

Every third Monday of January, the United States observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday to honor the life and legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1994 Congress passed a bill to ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X meet at the U.S. Senate, on March 26, 1964, after a hearing on the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (The Library of Congress) Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm ...

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ... Deliver For Voting Rights” and partnered with 150 other organizations and demanded that both President Joe Biden and Congress pass the Freedom to Vote Act. ...

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. is calling for "no celebration" of MLK Day without the passage of voting rights legislation, putting pressure on President Joe Biden and lawmakers to act on ...

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, ... Ala., bus boycott for Congress to approve the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil rights movement. The protests he organized, the marches he led and the ...

Marvel at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is ranked #15 out of 41 things to do in Washington, ... (a reference to the year the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by Congress) ...

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. is calling for “no celebration” of MLK Day without the passage of voting rights legislation, putting pressure on President Joe Biden and lawmakers to act ...

Martin Luther King III, his wife Arndrea Waters King and their daughter Yolanda Renee King plan to mobilize activists on MLK weekend to push for Biden and Congress to apply the same efforts to ...