It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday ... executive branch employees a paid day off. When Gov. Evan Mecham took office in January 1987, one ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream ... Then in 1987, Gov. Evan Mecham rescinded his predecessor's executive order enacting a state holiday in Arizona.