Item Detail
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31563
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2
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23
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English
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The Last State to Honor MLK : Utah and the Quest for Racial Justice
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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2020
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88
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Illinois Press
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5-21
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"November 2, 1983, was a historic day at the White House. There President Ronald Reagan signed a bill to create a federal holiday on the third Monday in January named in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King. Dozens of states quickly followed suit. Within three years of the bill’s passage, seventeen states had recognized Martin Luther King Day. By 1999, all states had recognized the King holiday except Utah. In Utah, as in other states, the federal holiday set off a fierce debate about how to honor the late civil rights leader. In 1986, the Utah legislature chose to honor the King federal holiday by calling it Human Rights Day, prompting significant pushback from state’s small but noteworthy African American population. The refusal to honor King also placed a glaring spotlight on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose past teachings about blacks made the Mormon-dominated Utah legislature a target of ridicule and scorn in the national news media. In 2000, after intense pressure from critics both within and outside of the state, Utah Governor Michael Leavitt signed a bill renaming Human Rights Day Martin Luther King Day. "With this signing," the NAACP cheerfully noted, 'Utah became the last state to recognize the King holiday by name.'" [Author]
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