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: https://www.facebook.com/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-king-receives-a-degree-at-yale.html?_r=0 https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/01/29/yale-in-1964-and-today/ Martin Luther King, Jr. “Beyond Vietnam” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgwtd4X_qFM http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-martin-luther-king-jr Origins of MLK Day: http://www.thekingcenter.org/making-king-holiday http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/articles/helms_stalls_kings_day.html https://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942445/Historian-Assesses-Where-Does-MLKs-Dream-Stand-Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/01/16/martin-luther-king-junior-holiday-federal-monday-january-stevie-wonder/78844042/ https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html?_r=0 Costs of creating a federal holiday https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/what-does-it-take-to-create-a-holiday-its-all-politics-but-stevie-wonder-can-help/2014/10/12/9bbb0cc2-508f-11e4-babe-e91da079cb8a_story.html?utm_term=.8f4deab5a08e https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41990.pdf https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/Federal_Holidays.pdf Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday song http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/wonder_week/2016/12/stevie_wonder_wrote_the_black_happy_birthday_song.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/01/16/martin-luther-king-junior-holiday-federal-monday-january-stevie-wonder/78844042/ Robert E Lee and other adjacent Confederate holidays https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/martin-luther-king-jr-day-robert-e-lee-birthday-holiday/ Labor Union Support for a federal holiday https://www.thenation.com/article/working-class-hero/ Arizona Being the Last State to officially recognize the holiday (NFL protests) http://www.thekingcenter.org/making-king-holiday https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2014/02/26/why-the-nfl-moved-the-super-bowl-from-arizona-in-1990/?utm_term=.646a006ce168 https://sports.vice.com/en_ca/article/ezed9e/throwback-thursday-the-nfl-takes-the-super-bowl-away-from-arizona https://www.upi.com/Some-states-boycotted-MLK-Day-at-first/57461358775502/ Mental health and black activism: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201005/how-schizophrenia-became-black-disease-interview-jonathan-metzl http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/11/12/fbi_martin_luther_king_jr_letter_suicide_suggested_over_affairs.html On Santa's Reindeer: http://www.history.com/topics/christmas/santa-claus https://www.npr.org/2013/12/25/256579598/writing-rudolph-the-original-red-nosed-manuscript https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43171/a-visit-from-st-nicholas http://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/12/reindeer_names_origins.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/where-santa-claus-live-hometown-north-pole-180953723/