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Prior to 1991 the county operated a clinic in the Bordersville area of Houston. In 1991 the Lyons Clinic opened and the county closed the Bordersville clinic. [31] The county's Ripley clinic closed as a result of the opening of the Gulfgate clinic in 2000. [22] The Martin Luther King Health Center first opened on April 28, 1972.
In 1977 the Houston City Council voted to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by renaming South Park Boulevard, [6] a major area thoroughfare, to Martin Luther King Boulevard. [7] The renaming was effective on April 5, 1978. [8] Shilcutt said that South Park was no longer considered a suburb by the late 1980s, and that crime became a major concern.
MacGregor Park/Martin Luther King Jr. is a light rail station in Houston, Texas on the METRORail system. It is served by the Purple Line, and is located in the median of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at Old Spanish Trail near MacGregor Park. MacGregor Park/Martin Luther King Jr. station opened on May 23, 2015. [1]
The Clinic they founded continued to increase its presence in the Houston service sector. In 1999, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic moved into the current Main Campus at 2727 West Holcombe Blvd. The 400,000-square-foot (37,000 m 2 ) Main Campus building provides primary and specialty care in a single location, an outpatient surgery center, and an urgent ...
The Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize is awarded by the King Center. [7]A non-exhaustive list of recipients includes: Cesar Chavez (1973); Stanley Levison and Kenneth Kaunda (1978); Rosa Parks (1980); Martin Luther King Sr. and Richard Attenborough (1983); Corazon Aquino (1987); Mikhail Gorbachev (1991); and, on April 4, 2018 – the 50th anniversary of King's assassination – Ben ...
Cotton became a close confidant of King's after he invited her to work at the SCLC (the center of the civil rights movement) in the 1960s, according to The Dorothy Cotton Institute.She was the ...
As of 2011 the 26-acre (11 ha) complex includes a 268,000 square feet (24,900 m 2) former shopping center, [1] which is one story tall, [2] and the Park at Palm Center (PAPC). [4] The complex is at the intersection of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Griggs Road. [2] Tenants include small businesses, government agencies, and nonprofits. [5]
Rayne: Martin Luther King Drive is the name of an east–west street in front of the city's Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center. Shreveport: Louisiana Highway 3194 is designated as Dr. Martin Luther King Drive. It runs east–west across the length of North Shreveport.