Malcolm X Day

Malcolm X Day is an American holiday in honor of the civil rights leader Malcolm X which is celebrated either on May 19 (Malcolm's birthday), or the third Sunday in the month of May. The commemoration has legal status in the U.S. state of Illinois and the city of Berkeley, California.^[1] It is also a proposed holiday in Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D.C, with numerous calls for it to be celebrated alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. Day^[2] as a federal holiday.^[3] In 1993, this holiday was proposed at the federal level to Congress as H.J.R. #323 by Congressman Charles Rangel.^[4] In 2015,Illinois officially designated "May 19, 2015, and every May 19 thereafter" as Malcolm X Day.^[5]