Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated annually on the third ... U.S. Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan first proposed a bill on April 8, 1968, but the first vote on the legislation ...

In the late 1940s, the Western Michigan College Players performed ... scholarship programs that continue to this day, like the Martin Luther King Jr. Students Scholars Academy, which provides ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...