School Holiday / Martin Luther King Jr. Day

What

School Holiday / Martin Luther King Jr. Day

When

1/15/2024

Where

Bexar and Guadalupe Counties

Martin Luther King Day for the year 2023 is celebrated/ observed on Monday, January 16th.

Martin Luther King Day, also called MLK Day, King Day, and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Day, is observed on the third Monday of January, which is close to King's actual birthday on January 15. The earliest Monday the holiday will ever be celebrated is January 15th, and the latest is January 21st. The day is a federal United States holiday, with all government and most business offices closed.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who greatly impacted the civil rights movement of the 1950s in the United States. King was assassinated in 1968 and will be remembered for his non-violent protests against segregation and his “I Have a Dream” speech.

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed MLK Day into law, and three years later, it was first observed. By the year 2000, all fifty states officially observed the day. Another related holiday back in 1948, National Freedom Day, was signed into law by President Truman as a national observance recognizing the outlaw of slavery enacted earlier in 1865 under President Lincoln during the Civil War years.