Arizona was among last states to recognize MLK Day. Here's why and how Super Bowl played role
Arizona didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, a decade after it became a federal holiday. Here's how the Super Bowl played a role.
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It took years of acrimonious fights to create an MLK holiday in Arizona
It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday in Arizona. The big picture: The ...
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'Where God wanted me to be': Retiring pastor recalls heated Arizona MLK Jr. Day effort
I'd never had a white person talk to me like that,' Warren Stewart Sr. says, recalling the late Gov. Evan Mecham and the ...
Look back at photos of Arizonans pushing for MLK Day holiday
Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a ...
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Arizona was among last states to recognize MLK Day. Here's why and how Super Bowl played role
Arizona was not the last state to create an ... the holdouts because of the resistance of controversial former Gov. Evan Mecham. On Jan. 12, 1987, Mecham rescinded a 1986 executive order by ...