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Diamond Bar Library: 21800 Copley Dr, Diamond Bar, CA: Diamond Bar: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library: 17906 S Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746: Carson: Named after Martin Luther King Jr. Duarte Library: 1301 Buena Vista St, Duarte, CA 91010: Duarte: East Los Angeles Library: 4837 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90022: East Los Angeles: El Camino Real ...
Carson lies on part of the Spanish land grant Rancho San Pedro, from the King of Spain in 1784. [16] The Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum on Alameda Street in Compton (not far from Carson's city limits) is the historic ranch home of the grantees Juan Dominguez and Manuel Dominguez. Carson was named after George Henry Carson, who married a daughter ...
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]
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 Public Library in Chicago; Martin Luther King Jr. Branch of ...
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 ...
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is a memorial dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. in the civic center of Compton, California. It was built in 1978 by Gerald Gladstone. The architect of the civic center, Harold L. Williams, helped design it. [1] The sculpture is surrounded by the Compton Courthouse, Compton Library, and Compton City Hall.
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 ...