Deseret News archives: Martin Luther King Jr. Day history celebrated with service, optimism
On Nov. 2, 1983, then President Ronald Reagan signed the bill named the “King Holiday Bill” that forevermore set the third Monday in January as a federal holiday in order to remember and observe the civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 20 marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday that ... former President Ronald Reagan signed it into law later that year. The first national holiday honoring King ...
It was first proposed four days after King’s 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel. It took 15 years until it became a ...
Arizona didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, a decade after it became a federal holiday. Here's how the Super ...
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