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 ...

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 ...

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.

Arizona was the last ... Gov. Evan Mecham took office in January 1987 after running on the promise that he would rescind MLK Jr. Day, which he did. "You folks don't need another holiday," Mecham ...

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 ...