Just days after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April 1968, members of Congress sympathetic to the civil rights hero proposed a federal holiday in his honor. It would take another 15 years and a failed floor vote, however, for Congress to pass the legislation that finally codified a day to commemorate King’s legacy. President Reagan signed the bill into law in 1983 and the first nation-wide MLK Day was celebrated in 1986. Every third Monday in January since then gives us reason to revisit the life, deeds, and words of Dr. King. As a millennial growing up in...
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