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

Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a ...

It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday in Arizona. The big picture: The ...

Jimmy Carter defeated a popular Arizona congressman to win the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and tried to defund the CAP.

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 didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, a decade after it became a federal holiday. Here's how the Super ...

William Schafer III, who served as lead prosecutor in the car-bombing murder of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles in the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is recognized across the nation, both as a state and national holiday, on the civil rights ...

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 ...

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 On Jan. 12, 1987, Mecham rescinded a 1986 executive order by previous Gov.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 ...