Martin Luther King Day: Campus Closed

There are no classes today. University offices are closed. This includes Horace Mann Laboratory School, Leet Center Preschool Program and Leet Infant & Toddler Center.

Although King was born Jan. 15, 1929, his birthday has been observed as a national holiday on the third Monday of each January since 1986.

King’s effort to lead the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s and ’60s included the 1963 March on Washington. There, he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, which dramatically raised public consciousness about civil rights and established King as a world figure. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.