CHICAGO — Chicago civil rights leaders ... days in the American calendar. And that is the day that we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.,” said Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

The west side of the building shows the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. reading a newspaper ... Kar Pharmacy after he and his family moved to Chicago for a year in 1965. A black panther stretches ...