Public holidays · 2024
Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on Monday, January 15, 2024 in United States in 2024.
A public holiday across United States: most employees have the day off.
In 2024 it falls on a Monday, a working day.
The date changes from year to year.
Saturday and Sunday · A public holiday does not always close every business. Essential services, shops and some industries keep working, and pay rules differ by country and contract.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day honours Dr Martin Luther King Jr., the Baptist minister who became the most prominent leader of the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King advocated nonviolent resistance to segregation and discrimination, led the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and 1956, and delivered the I Have a Dream speech at the March on Washington in August 1963. His Letter from Birmingham Jail of 1963 remains widely read. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and was assassinated on 4 April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
The holiday is marked with parades, speeches, church services and community service. Many Americans treat it as a day on, not a day off: the King Holiday and Service Act, signed in 1994, made it a national day of service, and AmeriCorps coordinates volunteer projects across the country. Schools and libraries hold readings, and many cities hold marches and memorial services. The day is also used for reflection on the unfinished work of the civil rights movement.
Everywhere in United States.
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A public holiday across United States: most employees have the day off.
Monday, January 15, 2024.