The road to Martin Luther King Jr. Day becoming a federal holiday in the United States was long and arduous. President Ronald Reagan signed legislation to make it official in 1983, about 20 years ...
More than 50 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the federal government is moving to declassify thousands of documents that could provide new insight into the events ...
King was buried at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park. Soon after, Coretta Scott King established The King Center as "the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement ...
in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The cemetery was established in 1928 and is a historically Black burial site in Edinburg. It is a significant landmark in the city’s history. Volunteers ...