‘Gross and Disrespectful’: Atlanta-Area Restaurant Slammed for Using Shocking Explicit MLK Jr. and Rosa Parks Image to Promote Event, Sparks Outrage and Calls for Shutdown.

As an attorney for Rosa Parks, the NAACP and Martin Luther King Jr., the Freedom Riders and others, Gray helped desegregate public buses and integrate public schools and universities.

Rosa Parks worked in Conyers’ office from 1965 until her retirement in 1988. In 1968, Conyers’ bill for the King holiday did not pass. But Detroit wasn’t done.

National Parks MLK Day is one of seven free entrance days in 2025. Government agencies Most nonessential government services like the DMV, libraries and city offices will be closed.