Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader who was born Jan. 15, 1929. The holiday was first celebrated in 1986. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the country’s most important figures in the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s. In honor of the Baptist minister who came to prominence as leader of a movement to boycott the Montgomery, Ala., public bus system after …
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