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Martin Luther King Jr. Day Study Guide
MLK Day is a federal holiday in the United States marking the birthday of activist and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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☆☆☆☆☆He was born Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929. In 1934, however, his father, a pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, traveled to Germany and became inspired by the Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther. As a result, King Sr. changed his own name as well as that of his 5-year-old son.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929.
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, August 28, 1963. I Have a Dream
On the third Monday in January
King organized a boycott of the Montgomery Bus System. In the end, the Supreme Court decided to stop segregation on public transport.
President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed three years later.
According to the King Center, the civil rights leader went to jail 29 times.
