Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...

where he delivered a speech, “The Other America,” at Grosse Pointe High School (later renamed, Grosse Pointe South High School.) Four days after his assassination, U.S. Rep. John Conyers ...

where he delivered a speech, “The Other America,” at Grosse Pointe High School (later renamed, Grosse Pointe South High School.) John Conyers, U.S. Representative for Michigan's 14th ...

It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel. It took 15 years until it became a ...

John Conyers of Michigan ... In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared Congress ...