In 1983, about 20 years after King's "I Have a Dream" speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.

Visitors participated in a number of activities, such as a scavenger hunt, and a special viewing of Dr. King's famous "I have a dream" speech.

In the good ole days—and I guess that statement dates me—national holidays and national recognition days came few and far between. January would pass by without much fanfare, and Abraham

He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as “a great American ... institutions and various industries recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For some, the holiday ...

Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day ... to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865. “Much has been given ...

One of the most notable is King. From standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington ... “I’d like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give ...

In these quiet ways — and others — people across the Washington region will honor Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday while thousands of others converge on the nation’s capital to celebrate President-elect Donald Trump being sworn in for a second term.

Dr. King famously said ... but it also planted the seeds of a new beginning. Abraham Lincoln, a Republican president, ran on an anti-slavery platform (in actually, it is an oddly little known ...

STATEN ISLAND SECTION Later that day, the National Council of Negro Women, Staten Island Section, organized a transformative Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service in collaboration with several ...

(This story was updated to accurately reflect the most current information.) Jacksonville's Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, which was postponed Monday because of cold weather, has been ...

Hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify documents detailing the FBI’s investigation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s 1968 assassination, the civil rights ...