Arizona was one of the last states to recognize MartinLutherKingJr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a public vote to do so. In 1987, Gov. EvanMecham fulfilled a ...
Hundreds gathered in Raleigh on Monday for the city’s 45th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., marching through downtown before an ecumenical service in his honor. “Dr. King took America’s ...
MartinLutherKingJr. Day celebrates the life and impact ... because of the resistance of controversial former Gov. EvanMecham. On Jan. 12, 1987, Mecham rescinded a 1986 executive ...