Martin Luther King Jr. Day ... Representative John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, introduced legislation for a federal holiday shortly after King Jr.'s death. The bill did not gain immediate ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is an annual federal holiday to ... Only a few days after his death, Congressman John Conyers proposed legislation to create a national holiday in honour of King.

The Rev. Martin Luther King ... MLK day began The idea to establish a national holiday for the civil rights icon arose as the nation was plunged into grief. U.S. Democratic Rep. John Conyers ...

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. protested President ... the declassification of records related to John F. Kennedy, RFK, and MLK Jr. The King material could prove embarrassing for the civil ...

NEW YORK — Monday, Jan. 20, commemorates the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. This year ... King’s assassination in 1968, US Rep. John Conyers of Michigan introduced legislation ...

The Justice Department has asked a federal court to release FBI surveillance records of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., two ... judge in the case, John Lewis Smith Jr., are deceased.

Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she ...