Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Interstate 244 (I-244), also known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Expressway (in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.) since 1984, the Crosstown Expressway, and the Red Fork Expressway, is a 15.8-mile-long (25.4 km) east–west Interstate Highway bypass route of I-44 around Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Department of Public Safety; Agency overview; Formed: April 20, 1937; 87 years ago () Headquarters: 3600 N Martin Luther King Avenue Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Employees: 1,462 (FY20) Annual budget: $185 million (FY20) Minister responsible
Oklahoma City's downtown transit center at N.W. 4th St. and Hudson Ave. opened to customers in 2004 ... 22 Martin Luther King (was 22 ML King Blvd/Zoo/Remington Park ...
Oklahoma City: The Northern section of Eastern Avenue, from E. Reno Avenue north to N. 63rd Street, was renamed "N. Martin Luther King Avenue" in honor of his impact on Oklahoma City and the nation. The avenue is the principal north–south road in Oklahoma City's Eastside section, home to the state's largest African American community.
A year after city councilmembers approved adding it to the Strong Neighborhoods Initiative, OKC's Martin Luther King neighborhood is seeing progress.
Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta; he was the second of three children born to Michael King Sr. and Alberta King (née Williams). [6] [7] [8] Alberta's father, Adam Daniel Williams, [9] was a minister in rural Georgia, moved to Atlanta in 1893, [8] and became pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the following year. [10]
On July 29, 1960, King was the keynote speaker at a freedom rally of about 1,500 people at Calvary Baptist Church, his first visit to Oklahoma City. Flashback: In 1968 Oklahoma civil rights ...
Luper became the advisor for the Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council [8] in 1957 while working as a history teacher at Dunjee High School in Spencer, Oklahoma. [9] The message and success of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery bus boycott influenced her activism, along with personal tragedies related to segregation. [10]