The article outlines Arizona's contentious history with recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a state holiday and the ...

It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday in Arizona. The big picture: The movement to carve out a day to honor King began shortly after his 1968 ...

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.

Bruce Babbitt that would have made MLK Day an Arizona holiday. In 1990, the state put it up for a vote, and Arizona voters rejected the holiday. Shortly after, a national boycott that included ...

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.

Bruce Babbitt served as Arizona governor from 1978-87 and as secretary of the Interior from 1993-2001. Reach him at [email protected].

Arizona was not the last state to create an ... On Jan. 12, 1987, Mecham rescinded a 1986 executive order by previous Gov. Bruce Babbitt to create the holiday after the Legislature failed to ...