Every year is the anniversary of the. Martin Luther King designated a federal holiday to pay respect to the man who played such a crucial role in the civil rights and social justice movements. Monday, January 17, 2022 marks the 35th year of celebration introduced to commemorate King's life of public work.

The holiday was the outcome of a large-scale campaign led by a number of activists. One of the most remarkable of these was the blind musician Stevie Wonder, who was able to popularise the campaign with the hit Happy birthday in 1980 and the Rally for Peace press conference in 1981. US President Ronald Reagan signed on November 2, 1983 the law that made the federal holiday in King's honor official.

“I Have a Dream” is a public speech that was given by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to Racism in the United States The speech, which was given from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to more than 250,000 adherents of civil rights, was a decisive moment of the civil rights movement and one of the most iconic speeches in American history.

April four, 1968, the 'dream' of civil rights activist Martin Luther King came to an abrupt end at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He was killed. During his lifetime, he competed for the rights of African Americans and a fair world with equal opportunities.

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