Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Mon, Jan 20
|All Day
Honors the civil rights leader and his contributions to equality. It celebrates the movement started by Martin Luther King Jr. to end racism and inequality in the U.S. This movement was a decade-long campaign by the African Americans for their rights.
Time & Location
Jan 20, 2025, 12:00 AM
All Day
About the event
Civil Rights Day, or Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is an annual observance marked on the third Monday in January, and takes place on January 20 this year. It celebrates the movement started by Martin Luther King Jr. to end racism and inequality in the U.S. This movement was a decade-long campaign by the African Americans for their rights and to put an end to legalized racial segregation by the ‘white’ people against people of ‘any other color.’ This campaign led by Martin Luther King Jr. and others ended legalized discrimination in the United States against people of color.
The movement lasted 14 years, in which it not only gained support from the entire African American community but also from other racial minorities living in the U.S. During this time, five federal laws and one constitutional amendment (24th amendment) were passed by Congress and many federal institutions were set up…