Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15 but he is honored on the third Monday of the month with a federal holiday. 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.

In 1994, Congress designated the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday as a national day of service.  If you would like to volunteer, please go to http://www.mlkday.gov/ and look up volunteer opportunities in the community.