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 ...
January 20 marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday that honors ... Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., introduced legislation to create a federal holiday honoring King on April ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream ... U.S. Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, one of the longest-serving members of Congress known for his liberal stance ...
In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther ... King’s assassination in 1968, a campaign for a holiday in his honor began. U.S. Representative John Conyers Jr ...
NEW YORK — Monday, Jan. 20, commemorates the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. This year ... King’s assassination in 1968, US Rep. John Conyers of Michigan introduced legislation ...