Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...
John Conyers Jr., D-Detroit, in a picket line in front of General Motors headquarters in 1986. Motown itself was involved with King and the Civil Rights Movement, beginning with Esther Gordy ...
John Conyers, D-Detroit, introduced a bill in the ... Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From the 1955-56 boycott to 1964, King had gone from an unknown ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He ...
John Conyers of Michigan, one of the longest-serving ... director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. Polls conducted by the Washington Post ...
John Conyers of Michigan introduced legislation for ... honoring King.Here's what's open and closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025.Retail and groceryMajor US retailers and grocers — such ...