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., ...

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.

In Focus: Martin Luther King Jr. Day. ... U.S. Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan first proposed a bill on April 8, 1968, but the first vote on the legislation didn’t happen until 1979.

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 and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

U.S. Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, ... Martin Luther King Jr. Day’s reach has only grown in its 42 years. It’s the only federal holiday where you take a “day on, ...

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 ...