Savanna, GA.
Missouri was the first state to adopt Martin Luther King Day as national holiday.
Maryland
South Carolina was the last state to make Martin Luther King Day a paid holiday.
Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous state in Washington DC, Maryland
He actually began pastoring at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in 1954 (and was still pastoring there in 1955 when the boycott started).
From Alabama
the martin Luther king jr memorial is in Washington D.C
Martin Luther believed in a separation of church and state. Calvin believed that the church should be the state. Calvin felt that if man had free will, then God was not omnipotent. Martin Luther felt that man could have free will and that did not diminish God's power.
South Carolina
Segregation is a state of being apart or separated, it cannot be 'freed'. Martin Luther King spoke against it.
New Hampshire Utah was last to call it by name in 2000.
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