Martin Luther King Jr. Just three weeks prior, King had been in Grosse Pointe, where he delivered a speech, “The Other America,” at Grosse Pointe High School (later renamed, Grosse Pointe South High ...

John Conyers Jr., D-Detroit, in a picket line in front of General Motors headquarters in 1986. Motown itself was involved with King and the Civil Rights Movement, beginning with Esther Gordy ...

John Conyers, D-Detroit, introduced a bill in the ... Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From the 1955-56 boycott to 1964, King had gone from an unknown ...

Detroit City Councilman Fred Durhal launched his campaign for mayor on Wednesday at the Boys & Girls Club of Southeastern ...

Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

The road to Garvey’s presidential pardon is a story of tireless activism by human rights leaders, Garvey’s descendants and ...

John Conyers of Michigan, one of the longest-serving ... director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. Polls conducted by the Washington Post ...

John Conyers of Michigan introduced legislation for ... honoring King.Here's what's open and closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025.Retail and groceryMajor US retailers and grocers — such ...