ORLANDO, Fla. – People around the country will pause to remember and celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.The civil rights icon’s actual birthday is Jan.
15. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill designating the holiday be observed on the third Monday of January. It came 15 years after King was assassinated.[TRENDING: Data scientist Rebekah Jones arrested in Florida | Disney World not selling any new annual passes | Orlando police search for missing 12-year-old girl]King was a man known around the world.
A visit to your city from the civil rights leader put the city on notice that change was about to happen.Yet when King visited Orlando, on March 6, 1964, it was barely a blip on the radar.That visit is nearly lost to.