MLK Day 2020: Here's What's Open, Closed In Woodstock

WOODSTOCK, GA — Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on Monday, Jan. 20 this year, and a variety of services will be closed in Woodstock on the day.

King's birthday is Jan. 15, but the federal holiday celebrating the civil rights leader is observed on the third Monday of January each year.

Here's a breakdown of how the holiday could impact your routine.

• Cherokee County government will be closed Monday.
• Cherokee County Schools will be closed.
• Municipal offices for Woodstock will be closed.
• All Sequoyah Regional Library System branches will be closed.
• Garbage pick up will be on a regular schedule in Woodstock.
• Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday is a federal holiday and all U.S. Postal Service post offices will be closed. No mail will be delivered or sent.
• All banks will be closed.
• Publix and Kroger stores will be open.

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The history of the MLK holiday in America is a complicated one.

Almost immediately after King's assassination in 1968, activists began pushing for a holiday celebrating his Jan. 15 birthday. However, the official national holiday wasn't signed into law until 1983 by President Ronald Reagan.

The first federal MLK Day was observed on the third Monday of January in 1986, but many states held out. Arizona didn't recognize the day until 1992, when the state lost its rights to host the Super Bowl after voters in Arizona failed to make the day a paid holiday.

The last state to adopt the holiday? New Hampshire, in 1999.