What's Open, Closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Here's your guide to holiday hours in West Bloomfield.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday on Monday is an opportunity to reflect on the contributions of one of our nation's greatest civil right leaders. As such, many state and local offices, banks and credit unions, schools and libraries will be closed. King, who urged nonviolent resistance as a means to protest racial and other human rights injustices, was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis and would have turned 84 this past Tuesday. The 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner delivered an early version of his I Have a Dream speech during a 1963 rally in Detroit. This year marks the 50th anniversary of that speech. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their …
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