[ponygirl]

I have often wondered why MLK is a holiday and not, say, Emancipation Day or 13th Amendment Day.

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In New Hampshire and Arizona MLK Jr. Day was Civil Rights Day for some years. In Utah it was Human Rights Day. The name changed a few years back in all three states.

Officially, in some states, Martin Luther King's name is still combined with "Civil Rights" or "Human Rights" or Lee or Jackson in the holiday's official name.