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.

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

Evan Mecham took office in January 1987 ... to voter backlash over news the NFL would move the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona if the state rejected MLK Day. The NFL moved the Super Bowl to Pasadena ...

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.

After nearly 50 years, a Phoenix pastor who helped bring Martin Luther King Jr. Day to Arizona is stepping down from his ...

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 On Jan. 12, 1987, Mecham rescinded a 1986 executive order by ...