MartinLutherKing Jr. leads the Walk to Freedom through downtown Detroit on June 23, 1963. MLKDay will be observed on Jan. 20. Bettmann Archive The first holiday of the year was just a ...
MartinLutherKing Jr. Day’s reach has only grown in ... of projects involving hundreds of thousands of people for MLKday in recent years. Engagement seems to be expanding.
Only once before since it became a federal holiday has MartinLutherKing Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of ...