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The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library (also known locally as the MLK Library or the King Library) is an 8-story [1] public library and university library, located in downtown San Jose, California, which had its grand opening on August 16, 2003. [2]
Its central library, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, is also the main library of the San Jose State University.Built in 2003, King Library is the first joint use library in the United States shared by a major university as its only library and a large city as its main library.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose, California; Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library of the Brevard County Libraries in Melbourne, Florida; Martin Luther King Jr. Library of the Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System in Atlanta; Martin Luther King Jr. Library of the Chicago ...
The city's previous central library, in Mount Vernon Square, was donated by industrialist Andrew Carnegie and dedicated in 1903.. A 1961 Booz Allen Hamilton report sponsored by the city government found that the library had become inadequate in size and technology, was located in what was now the city's "worst slum", and that "At any hour of the day or night, a collection of derelicts loaf ...
When you open the doors of what used to be Columbus Metropolitan Library branch named for Martin Luther King Jr. on Columbus' Near East Side, a quote by the civil rights icon greets you.
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 ...
After hosting Martin Luther King Jr. Day for two decades — excluding the one year, they missed because of COVID-19 — Holman is proud of the library's event and hopes that it continues to grow ...
From 1957 to 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled 6 million miles, gave over 2,500 speeches and wrote five books. King was the youngest ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. King’s ...