Martin Luther King Holiday January 2025. A baptist minister who advocated the use of nonviolent means to end racial segregation, he first came to national prominence during a bus boycott by african americans in montgomery, alabama, in 1955. Martin luther king day observed on the 3rd monday of january every year.

15 — and this year, the federal holiday falls on the actual birthday of the celebrated civil rights leader who was. Day is a federal holiday that is observed every year in the united states.