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 ...

Four days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a junior member of Congress introduced a bill to establish a federal holiday to honor the slain civil rights leader. Five decades later ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

He was the longest-serving African American in the US congress but his career was derailed by sexual harassment allegations ...

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 ...