May is full of observances! Check out the list below and take action with CRS by engaging with our Facebook and Instagram posts that acknowledge these special designations.
Labor History Month
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Mental Health Awareness Month
May 1 – International Workers’ Day (May Day)
May 1 – National Day of Prayer
May 1 – National Law Day
May 3 – World Press Freedom Day
May 4 – Start of the Freedom Rides in 1961
May 4-10 – Public Service Recognition Week
May 4-June 4 – National Returning Youth Month
May 5 – Cinco de Mayo
May 5 – International Day of the Midwife
May 6 – National Teacher Appreciation Day
May 8 – Anniversary of the birth of Ahmaud Marquez Arbery in 1994
May 8-9 – Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War
May 11 – Mother’s Day
May 12 – Second Passover
May 12 – Vesak (Buddha Day/Visak Bochea)
May 14 – Freedom Riders Face Bloodshed in Alabama in 1961
May 14 – Anniversary of the mass shooting at Tops Grocery Store in Buffalo, New York in 2022
May 15 – Nakba Day
May 15 – International Day of Conscientious Objection
May 15-16 – Lag BaOmer
May 16 – International Day of Living Together in Peace
May 17– International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia
May 17 – Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
May 19 – Agender Pride Day
May 19 – Anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X in 1925
May 20 – Anniversary of the birth of Michael Brown in 2006
May 21 – World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
May 22 – Harvey Milk Day
May 24 – Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness Visibility Day
May 25 – Africa Day
May 25 – Anniversary of the death of George Perry Floyd in 2020
May 25-26 – Yom Yerushalayim
May 26 – Memorial Day - CRS Closed
May 28 – Amnesty International Day
May 28 – Anniversary of the Indian Removal Act in 1830
May 28 – Menstrual Hygiene Day
May 29 – Ascension Day
May 31-June 1 – Anniversary of the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre in 1921