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Homer: The northernmost two blocks of Magnolia Street in Homer are named Dr. Martin Luther King Street. Lafayette: Martin Luther King Jr. Drive is an east–west street near the intersection of Interstate 10 and Interstate 49.
As Alderman put it in the 2014 journal article, “The commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. through street (re)naming is part of a larger movement to redress the exclusion of African American ...
The bronze bust on a granite base is the first memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. in Savannah. [20] In 2010, a statue of Martin Luther King Jr., sculpted by Zenos Frudakis, was installed in the Martin Luther King Memorial Park adjacent to the J. Lewis Crozer Library in Chester, Pennsylvania. The statue is 5 feet (1.5 m) tall and 685 pounds ...
On Monday, Old World North 3rd Street will be renamed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, erasing a divide on the street 38 years after a bitter fight.
Ralph Abernathy was a leader of the civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., whom he met in 1954; [2] they eventually became close friends. [2] Abernathy collaborated with King on many successful nonviolent movements, [3] including their creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which led to the Montgomery bus boycott.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than 50 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the question of how to honor him continues to divide Kansas City residents.
On June 3, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an address at Goodwin Stadium, titled "Religious Witness for Human Dignity". The address was not noted in many biographies of King and was only found in 2013, when a woman discovered it along with reels from civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale's radio show at a Goodwill store. [5]
Martin Luther King Jr. at the podium on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963. The sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., comprise an extensive catalog of American writing and oratory – some of which are internationally well-known, while others remain unheralded and await rediscovery.