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Home » King Holiday 40 Years Since Historic Passage

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King Holiday Marks 40 Years Since Passage

Gregory Mooreby Gregory MooreJanuary 12, 2023May 6, 2023

By Gregory T. Moore Forty years ago, the U.S. Congress passed a bill establishing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as the nation’s first federal holiday honoring an African American. The bill calling for a national holiday was introduced in the U.S. Congress just days after Dr. King’s assassination on April 4, 1968, by the late […]

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