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

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 ...

Days after King’s assassination in 1968, a campaign for a holiday in his honor began. U.S. Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan first proposed a bill on April 8, 1968, but the first vote on the ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He ...

On Nov. 2, 1983, then President Ronald Reagan signed the bill named the “King Holiday Bill” that forevermore set the third ...

This year's MLK Day also falls on Inauguration Day for President-elect Donald Trump, marking only the second time in 28 years that these federal observances align. The last time the two dates ...

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 ...