Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...

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 ...

Martin Luther King gave over 2,500 public speeches during his lifetime – many of them were delivered without a manuscript and ...

The UAW, led by President Doug Fraser, worked hard to gin up support for Chrysler, and many Democrats felt loyalty to the labor union because of its civil rights record. Walter Reuther helped ...

Maloney, and Bakery Union President James Cross ... Teamster propagandists, playing on the Republican dislike of Walter Reuther and his United Auto Workers-CIO, portrayed McClellan and Kennedy ...