Martin Luther King Day is a United States federal holiday held on the third Monday of January each year.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an important leader of the civil rights movement here in America during the 1950s and 60s. The holiday was created as a day to remember his fight for the freedom, equality, and dignity of all races and peoples and as a time to remember the message of change through nonviolence.
He is most well-known for his campaigns to end racial segregation on public transport and for racial equality in the United States. Schools, banks, federal offices and the post office will close across America close as we celebrate the birth, the life and the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.