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By HENRY FREDERICK / Headline Surfer
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, in the United States, the holiday (third Monday in January) honors the achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Baptist minister who advocated the use of nonviolent means to end racial segregation, he first came to national prominence during a bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955. He founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 and led the 1963 March on Washington.
The most influential of African American civil rights leaders during the 1960s, MLK was instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination in public accommodations, facilities, and employment, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1964. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Day is celebrated on Monday, January 18, 2021.
Source: Britannica online, MLK Facebook page