How Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?

Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG Subscribe to Origin of Everything! http://bit.ly/originsub Did you know Martin Luther King Jr Day wasn’t celebrated in all 50 states until 2000? And that in order to create the holiday honoring the civil rights leader we needed help from Stevie Wonder and the National Football League. Why was this the case? Well MLK Jr, wasn’t beloved by everyone during his life and winning the battle to create a holiday in his honor took a lot of work. How did it all happen? Watch the episode to find out. Do you enjoy the show? The check us out on: Like our Facebook Page:   / pbsoriginofe.  . Instagram: @pbsoriginofeverything Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge Graphics By: Noelle Smith Directed By: Andrew Kornhaber Produced By: Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Works Cited: Citations: Radical King Cornel West http://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/16/dr-... https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/0... Martin Luther King, Jr. “Beyond Vietnam”    • Martin Luther King, Jr. on Income Inequali...   http://www.history.com/news/10-things... Origins of MLK Day: http://www.thekingcenter.org/making-k... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/... https://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/ma... Costs of creating a federal holiday https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifest... https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41990.pdf https://www.senate.gov/reference/reso... Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday song http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/wo... https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... Robert E Lee and other adjacent Confederate holidays https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2... Labor Union Support for a federal holiday https://www.thenation.com/article/wor... Arizona Being the Last State to officially recognize the holiday (NFL protests) http://www.thekingcenter.org/making-k... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/e... https://sports.vice.com/en_ca/article... https://www.upi.com/Some-states-boyco... Mental health and black activism: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/... http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slates... On Santa's Reindeer: http://www.history.com/topics/christm... https://www.npr.org/2013/12/25/256579... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem... http://www.syracuse.com/entertainment... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel...