Leader of "Southern Christian Leadership Conference" Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in 1929 and died in 1968.
In November 1983, President Reagan signed legislation creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, making it the third national holiday born in the twentieth century. The first was Veterans Day, created as a "prayer for peace" in 1926. Memorial Day came second
Fact Monster, published by Information Please, offers a variety of short articles on King, his holiday, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and the civil rights movement.
