{"id":38885,"date":"2026-01-15T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=38885"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:48:06","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-day-is-jan-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/01\/15\/martin-luther-king-jr-day-is-jan-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Jan. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

The annual holiday honors the civil rights icon<\/h2>\n

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1\/15\/26 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed Monday, Jan. 19.<\/p>\n

King helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his landmark \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech. He also helped pave the way for the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.<\/p>\n

In 1964, at age 35, he became the youngest person at that point to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n

He was assassinated four years later.<\/p>\n

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation designating the third Monday in January a federal holiday in honor of King\u2019s birthday. The holiday\u2019s official name is Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service has issued several stamps honoring King and his work, including a 1979 Black Heritage stamp and a 2005 release honoring milestones in the Civil Rights Era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The annual holiday honors the civil rights icon 1\/15\/26 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed Monday, Jan. 19. King helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his landmark \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech. He also helped pave the way for the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38887,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38885\/revisions\/38887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}