50 years ago, Harold Washington helped Illinois become the first state to legally celebrate MLK. It took the rest of the country much longer.
Framed by an altar rail, members of the Wendell Phillips High School choir sing a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 15, 1974, at Holy Angels Catholic Church in Chicago.Gov. Dan Walker signed two bills into law that day. That’s not unusual. Multiple signings mean more souvenir pens to give sponsors of the bills, more photo ops for the media. In this case, King’s birthday didn’t get top billing in the Tribune report, appearing in a story under the headline: “Forced Busing Ban Okd.
“To the liberals of the ACLU stripe, it is a gross infringement on the right of non-Christians to allow the singing of ‘Silent Night’ in the public schools,” wrote syndicated columnist Patrick Buchanan, who later ran unsuccessfully for president as a Republican. “Where is the consistency in forcing an entire nation — still bitterly divided about his legacy — to pay tribute to Martin Luther King?”
They ignored the fact that Washington, like other Founding Fathers, was a slaveholder, while King agitated for the abolition of segregation, slavery’s vile offspring.A banner at a demonstration in Washington in 1981, demands that the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. be made into a federal holiday.
Holding her daughter on her lap, a woman wipes away a tear as she listens to a recording of a speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at a memorial service in his honor at Holy Angels Catholic Church on Jan. 15, 1974, in Chicago. President Ronald Reagan signs the bill making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday into a national holiday as Coretta Scott King looks on Nov. 2, 1983, in Washington.
Arizona’s experience witnesses the emotional depth of some objectors’ distaste for Martin Luther King Day and some partisans’ commitment.In 1986, Gov. Bruce Babbitt, a Democrat, created a MLK holiday, just as his term was about to expire. But his Republican successor, Gov. Evan Mecham, scratched MLK Day, citing the state attorney general’s opinion that Babbitt’s action was illegal.
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