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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, locally referred to as King Drive is a major north–south street on the South Side of Chicago. It was formerly named South Park Way, and originally called Grand Boulevard. Chicago became the first city in the world to name a street after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968 following his assassination. [1]
Grand Boulevard on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of the city's Community Areas. The boulevard from which it takes its name is now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The area is bounded by 39th to the north, 51st Street to the south, Cottage Grove Avenue to the east, and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad tracks to the west.
Scottsboro: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street in Scottsboro runs north–south on the northwest side of town. Selma: In 1976, Sylvan Street was renamed Martin Luther King Street. King spent many days along Sylvan Street working for civil rights in the 1960s, especially by speaking at First Baptist Church and Brown Chapel.
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.
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 ...
57th Street and Lake Park, Chicago: Destroyed in Metra renovation, 2001/2 [7] St. Martin Luther King: 1977: 49th Street and Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago: Destroyed after being defaced [2] Reaching Children/Touching People: 1980: 975 E. 132nd Street, Chicago [8] You Are as Good as Anyone: 1980: Reaganomics: 1982: Wall of Community Respect ...
The 1968 Chicago riots, in the United States, were sparked in part by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rioting and looting followed, with people flooding out onto the streets of major cities, primarily in black urban areas. [1]
The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House is located on Chicago's South Side, on the west side of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive roughly midway between 35th and 37th streets. It is a three-story structure built out of ashlar granite in the Romanesque Revival style which was popular around 1890. The front facade is divided into a large right bay, a smaller ...