State Is Last to Get King Holiday
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Gov. Jim Hodges, in Columbia, S.C., signed a bill that officially institutes a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday for state workers in South Carolina, but the NAACP criticized the measure because it also creates a Confederate Memorial Day. South Carolina became the last state in the nation to fully recognize the King holiday as a day off for all state workers. Before, state employees could choose to take the day off. Hodges said the compromise that also made the Confederate holiday was necessary for the bill to pass the Legislature.
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