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 ...

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 ...

For the first time, the 85-year-old will observe the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday as dean of the House, the ceremonial title for the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives.

The release of National Archives documents is the latest attempt to define what the Civil Rights icon believed, and what that ...

U.S. Rep. John Conyers says today's dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C. provides the nation with an opportunity to reflect on the works of the civil rights leader ...

How did Martin Luther King Jr. Day become a holiday? 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 ...

April 4 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, TN. April 8 – Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) introduces legislation on the House floor to establish a federal holiday ...

In the months after the death of the civil rights icon, Congressman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan introduced the first legislation seeking to make King’s birthday, Jan. 15, a federal holiday.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the second federal holiday of every calendar year (after New Year's Day). The holiday marks King's birthday, which was on January 15, 1929.

A brief timeline of the rocky origins of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 1968. Months after King’s death, Michigan Congressman John Conyers Jr. introduced preliminary legislation to mark the civil ...