Asa Hutchinson Might Move to End King-Lee Holiday This Year (AR)
by Associated Press on Friday, Mar. 18, 2016 8:00 am
LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson may move sooner than expected on a plan to end the state's practice of commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the same day ...
... Arkansas is one of three states to jointly celebrate the black civil rights icon and the white Confederate general on the third Monday in January, and a proposal to end that practice failed repeatedly before a House committee last year ...
Rep. Vivian Flowers, who said Hutchinson mentioned the possibility of pursuing the proposal this year during a recent meeting with the Legislative Black Caucus, expressed concerns about doing so in a special session ...
Flowers said she was worried that the proposal could include a compromise to designate another day to honor Lee or Southern heritage, a provision that had been included in previous legislation ...
http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/110218/asa-hutchinson-might-move-to-end-king-lee-holiday-this-year
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