One of the leaders to emerge from that boycott was the pastor of Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From the 1955-56 boycott to 1964, King had gone from an ...

Martin Luther King Jr. waves to onlookers as he leads the 125,000-strong "Walk to Freedom ... carries a sign protesting cutbacks at General Motors and is followed by Rep. John Conyers Jr., ...

U.S. Rep. John Conyers says today's dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C. provides the nation with an opportunity to reflect on the works of the civil rights leader ...

For the first time, the 85-year-old will observe the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday as dean of the House, the ceremonial title for the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives.

Long-serving former Democratic Congressman John Conyers Jr., who was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and first introduced Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday, but had to ...

How did Martin Luther King Jr. Day come to be a federal holiday? On April 8, 1968, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., introduced legislation for a federal holiday, according to The King Center. The next ...

John Conyers Jr. Dies At 90 Conyers, who represented his hometown Detroit, ... Conyers also helped lead the charge for the creation of a federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

In the 50 years since the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. articulated the dream of a generation, the United States has seen significant progress toward the ideal of racial equality. But the other ...

Even then, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was met with strong resistance from some states; it wasn’t until 2000 that all 50 states recognized King’s birthday as a federal holiday.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday as it is a federal one. Created after overwhelming approval in Congress and being signed into a law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983 ...