The King Center kept up its efforts. It organized a march on Washington that included an estimated 500,000 people. Coretta Scott King, along with Wonder, presented a petition signed by 6 million people to House leader Tip O'Neill. The House took up the bill in 1983 and it passed by 53 votes.
It basically was in everything they did. If there was a myth that the gods would hate you if you did something they would express their true feelings on it the best way they could... though the arts.