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  2. Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Wikipedia

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    In Alabama: "Robert E. Lee/Martin Luther King Birthday". [26] In Arizona: "Martin Luther King Jr./Civil Rights Day". [27] In Arkansas: it was known as "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday and Robert E. Lee's Birthday" from 1985 to 2017. Legislation in March 2017 changed the name of the state holiday to "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday ...

  3. Jan. 2025 holiday schedule: MLK Jr. Day, Inauguration Day ...

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    When is Martin Luther King Jr. Day? Martin Luther King Jr. Day occurs on Monday, Jan. 20. 2025 holiday schedule: See full list of dates for Easter, Memorial Day, federal holidays, more

  4. What’s open, closed on MLK Day and Inauguration Day - AOL

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    This year, the holiday coincides with President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, though the majority of business closures will be for MLK Day. King’s actual birthday is on January 15, but ...

  5. Inauguration and MLK Day overlap for the third time ever ...

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    MLK Day, the federal holiday that honors civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr., is annually set for the third Monday in January near his Jan. 15 birthday.

  6. Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta; he was the second of three children born to Michael King Sr. and Alberta King (née Williams). [6] [7] [8] Alberta's father, Adam Daniel Williams, [9] was a minister in rural Georgia, moved to Atlanta in 1893, [8] and became pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the following year. [10]

  7. Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. We must resurrect the true ideals of Dr. King this MLK Day as ...

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    March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in ...

  9. Passage of Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Wikipedia

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    A United States federal statute honoring the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and his work in the civil rights movement with a federal holiday was enacted by the 98th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on November 2, 1983, creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.