Detroit Free Press on MSN16dOpinion
How Stevie Wonder, John Conyers and the UAW made MLK Day a holiday | Opinion
Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...
Detroit Free Press16d
How Stevie Wonder, John Conyers and the UAW made MLK Day a holiday | Opinion
John Conyers, D-Detroit ... United Autoworkers union members at a General Motors plant in North Tarrytown, New York, refused to come to work on King’s birthday. King had a long partnership ...
CNN on MSN17d
What’s open, closed on MLK Day and Inauguration Day
New York (CNN) — Monday, January 20 ... Just four days after King’s assassination in 1968, US Rep. John Conyers of Michigan introduced legislation for a federal holiday to honor the civil rights ...
The long struggle to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day
It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel. It took 15 years until it became a federal holiday.
The inside story of the pardon of Marcus Garvey
The road to Garvey’s presidential pardon is a story of tireless activism by human rights leaders, Garvey’s descendants and ...
UPI15d
39th MLK Day sees public service events, celebrations across U.S.
20 (UPI) --The United States is paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legacy the same day a new president was ... to establish it after Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., had initially proposed ...