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U.S. stock markets and most banks are closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But most stores and restaurants are open.
Stock Market Holidays Observed by the New York Stock Exchange. Holiday. 2021 . New Year’s Day. Friday, Jan. 1. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Monday, Jan. 18
The stock market is closed for the following holidays in 2024: New Year’s Day (Monday, Jan. 1) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Monday, Jan. 15) Presidents Day (Monday, Feb. 19) Good Friday (Friday ...
The New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE, nicknamed " The Big Board ") [ 4] is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization. [ 5][ 6][ 7] The NYSE trading floor is located at the New York Stock Exchange Building on 11 Wall Street and 18 ...
t. e. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., [ 1] and often referred to shorthand as MLK Day) is a federal holiday in the United States observed on the third Monday of January each year. King was chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which protested racial discrimination in ...
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park covers about 35 acres (0.14 km 2) and includes several sites in Atlanta, Georgia related to the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Within the park is his boyhood home, and Ebenezer Baptist Church — the church where King was baptized and both he and his father, Martin ...
However, the first national celebration of MLK Day didn’t take place until 1986 after years of advocacy. New Hampshire became the last state to adopt a holiday honoring King, in 1999.
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI) until 1964, he was a vocal ...