Gone at 90 years old, he endured as a leader to this country.

...Throughout his decorated tenure (click here) in the U.S. House of Representatives, he shepherded every significant civil rights law passed by the House of Representatives, including introducing the original bill to make Martin Luther King Jr. day a federal holiday. From 1969 to 1995, he chaired the House Oversight Committee and In 2007  became the first African-American to serve as Chair of the House Judiciary Committee. In that same year, he received the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP for his tireless dedication in the fight for justice....

October 27, 2019
By Ken Haddad

Detroit - Former Michigan Congressman John Conyers Jr. (click here) has died at the age of 90, the Detroit Police Department confirmed Sunday....

...Congressman Conyers had an exceptionally long congressional career lived in two parts. Born in 1929 in Highland Park, Conyers attended Northwestern High School, then Wayne State University Law School. While in law school Conyers took at job working for John Dingell, one of a handful of men who served in Congress longer than Conyers.

Conyers' first election win was in 1964. He took the oath of office in 1965 during enormous political change. Early on, Conyers quickly found himself in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. He befriended Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and helped found the Congressional Black Caucus, something famed New York African American Congressman Adam Clayton Powell was not enthusiastic about at the time. 

"He looked at us and he said, 'What for? I represent black people in America. You don't need a caucus.' We were dumbfounded," said Conyers.

Conyers introduced the 1965 Voting Rights Act and has described a great relationship with President Lyndon B. Johnson.

"His conscience, I think, kicked in, and he began to realize the inevitability of the President and the Congress doing the right thing and moving race relations forward," said Conyers....