Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday, 2026

What Proclamation 2026-01423 says

Federal Register, Volume 91 Issue 15 (Friday, January 23, 2026) [Federal Register Volume 91, Number 15 (Friday, January 23, 2026)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 3021-3022] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2026-01423] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 91 , No. 15 / Friday, January 23, 2026 / Presidential Documents [[Page 3021]] Proclamation 11004 of January 19, 2026 Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday, 2026 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Today, we honor the noble work of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose commitment to justice paved the way to the full realization of the American promise. Inspired by the tenets enshrined in our Declaration of Independence, we proudly renew our pledge to uphold our Nation's long-cherished principles of liberty, equal justice under the law, and the God- given dignity of the human person. Beginning in the 1950s, Dr. King pioneered a movement that would go on to triumphantly reaffirm our national conviction that every man, woman, and child is endowed by their Creator with rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. On August 28, 1963, he stood on the marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to unify millions of voices with his legendary articulation of an immortal truth: The measure of a person...

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