Home Parades and special events will mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day in America on Monday, Jan. 19, as citizens remember the slain civil rights leader. Government buildings, banks and public parks are closed today. Most public schools are closed. Museums and visitor’s centers are also closed but the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta is open. PICTURED: MONTGOMERY, AL – MARCH 25: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building. On March 25, 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Photo by Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images) Parades and special events will mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day in America on Monday, Jan. 19, as citizens remember the slain civil rights leader. Government buildings, banks and public parks are closed today. Most public schools are closed. Museums and visitor's centers are also closed but the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta is open. PICTURED: MONTGOMERY, AL - MARCH 25: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building. On March 25, 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Photo by Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images)

Parades and special events will mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day in America on Monday, Jan. 19, as citizens remember the slain civil rights leader. Government buildings, banks and public parks are closed today. Most public schools are closed. Museums and visitor’s centers are also closed but the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta is open. PICTURED: MONTGOMERY, AL – MARCH 25: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building. On March 25, 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Photo by Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images)

Parades and special events will mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day in America on Monday, Jan. 19, as citizens remember the slain civil rights leader. Government buildings, banks and public parks are closed today. Most public schools are closed. Museums and visitor’s centers are also closed but the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta is open. PICTURED: Children ride a bicycle past a mural in honor of the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. January 21, 2002 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Parades and special events will mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day in America on Monday, Jan. 19, as citizens remember the slain civil rights leader. Government buildings, banks and public parks are closed today. Most public schools are closed. Museums and visitor’s centers are also closed but the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta is open. PICTURED: Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)