Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday ... Four days after his assassination, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, introduced a bill in the Congress to recognize King’s ...
The Rev. Martin Luther ... Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, one of the longest-serving members of Congress known for his liberal stance on civil rights, proposed legislation to recognize King ...
NEW YORK — Monday, Jan. 20, commemorates the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ... Just four days after King’s assassination in 1968, US Rep. John Conyers of Michigan introduced ...
In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin ... King’s assassination in 1968, a campaign for a holiday in his honor began. U.S. Representative John Conyers Jr. of ...
January 20 marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day ... Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., introduced legislation to create a federal holiday honoring King on April 8, 1968, just four days after ...
The fact that slaves were sold in St. Augustine isn't in dispute; in 1827, the young New England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson ...