The fact that we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King jr.’s birthday as a state holiday is the result of a battle that lasted years and included talks of suing the NFL. One of the people who led the charge is local historian and activist Mario Marcel Salas.
“I was very much involved in trying to end racial injustice in the San Antonio area for the most part,” Salas said.In 1983, more than a decade following King’s death, his birthday was recognized as a federal holiday.
To bring attention to the issue, Salas and other activists pushed The San Antonio City Council to urge VIA to pull out of a conference that was in Arizona, because Arizona was one of the states that did not honor King’s birthday as a state holiday at the time. “If you guys are going to announce that you’re not going to Arizona and play because they don’t honor King, then you can’t come to Texas either,” Salas said.
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