It was 15 years after King's death before civil rights activists finally succeeded in making Martin Luther King Day a nationally observed holiday. Arizona was not the last state to create an ...

Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a public vote to do so. In 1987, Gov. Evan Mecham fulfilled a promise to cancel ...

It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday in Arizona. The big picture ... When Gov. Evan Mecham took office in January 1987, one of his first actions ...

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.

After Martin Luther King Jr Day was established as a federal holiday in 1986, Arizona's governor Evan Meacham decided not to extend it to the state ... for 48 years. Last year he began telling ...

Arizona was not the last state to create an official, paid Martin Luther King holiday, but it was perhaps the most well-known of the holdouts because of the resistance of controversial former Gov.

Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a public vote to do so. In 1987, Gov. Evan Mecham fulfilled a promise to ...