![]() Stevie and Coretta Scott-King attended the signing. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a US national holiday. On November 2nd 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed the bill making Dr. ![]() King presented a petition to the Speaker of the House with six million signatures in support of making Dr. On January 15th 1981, Stevie Wonder along with Diana Ross and Jesse Jackson at the National Mall in Washington DC spoke to over 50,000 people in support of the King Holiday. He did a four-month tour across America with Bob Marley and Gil Scott-Heron to campaign for the cause. Stevie Wonder sacrificed three years of his music career to rally and campaign to make Dr. His song would play a major role in the creation of MLK Day. The song was simply titled “Happy Birthday” from his 1980 album “Hotter Than July”. ![]() King’s birthday and to make it a federal holiday. King’s widow Coretta Scott-King and told her a dream he had about writing a song in honor of Dr. with his song “Happy Birthday ” which helped to make Dr. Stevie Wonder did just that and more when he did his tribute to Dr. For many years Black musicians mirror what’s going on through their music. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, Perry Thompson shares how Stevie Wonder worked tirelessly with others to ensure that Dr, King’s legacy would be observed with MLK Day as a US federal holiday on the third Monday of each January with Wonder’s timeless “Happy Birthday” now a global anthem…īlack music has not only entertained the masses, it has also served to document history.
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