Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a ...
It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday in Arizona. The big picture: The ...
On the third Monday of January — close to King's Jan. 15 birthday — federal, state and local governments, institutions and ...
Arizona didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, a decade after it became a federal holiday. Here's how the Super ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is recognized across the nation, both as a state and national holiday, on the civil rights ...
Our community leaders to whom we owe a deep debt of gratitude for working hard in the face of enormous obstacles to do the ...
I'd never had a white person talk to me like that,' Warren Stewart Sr. says, recalling the late Gov. Evan Mecham and the Arizona battle over MLK Day.
In March 1986, Governor Bruce Babbitt declared Martin Luther King Jr. Day an Arizona holiday through executive ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream ... Then in 1987, Gov. Evan Mecham rescinded his predecessor’s executive order enacting a state holiday in Arizona.
At a celebration of the legacy of civil rights activist and labor movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a workforce ...
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