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.

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

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

I'd never had a white person talk to me like that,' Warren Stewart Sr. says, recalling the late Gov. Evan Mecham and the ...

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

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 ...

I'd never had a white person talk to me like that' The King holiday's approval in Arizona followed a chapter in state history that included racist comments by former Gov. Evan Mecham, who opposed ...