Brown Chapel was also the beginning of the route of the infamous Bloody Sunday march. Today, there is a monument honoring King in front of Brown Chapel. Brown Chapel is the background in a famous Time magazine photograph of King in the 1960s. King spent many days along Sylvan Street working for civil rights in the 1960s, especially by speaking at First Baptist Church and Brown Chapel. Selma: In 1976, Sylvan Street was renamed Martin Luther King Street.Street in Scottsboro runs north–south on the northwest side of town. Expressway is I-85 from the Eastern Blvd to the I-65 interchange The section was formerly known as Davis Avenue from Congress Street to Bizell Avenue, and Stone Street from Bizell Ave. Avenue runs from Congress Street in downtown Mobile up to the intersections of Craft Highway and Saint Stephens Road. Mobile: On Mobile's northside area, Dr.Dothan: The portion of US 431 between Ross Clark Circle and its conjunction with US 231 is referred to as Martin Luther King Jr.Auburn: A section of Alabama State Route 14 is called Martin Luther King Drive, also known interchangeably as Loachapoka Road.The following is a list of streets named after King in the United States. King: Connecticut, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia. Thirteen state capital cities do not have either a street or freeway named after Dr. King: Staten Island, New York Jacksonville Florida Norfolk, Virginia Fayetteville, North Carolina Tupelo, Mississippi Louisville, Kentucky Memphis, Tennessee Akron, Ohio Tulsa, Oklahoma Fort Worth, Texas Colorado Springs, Colorado San Diego, California Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Bucks County) Camden, New Jersey and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. įifteen cities have freeways named after Dr. In 2014 he estimated that there were over 900 streets named after King in 41 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. In 2006, Derek Alderman, a cultural geographer at East Carolina University, reported the number had increased to 730, with only 10 states in the country without a street named after King (Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Vermont). By 2004, this number had grown to 650, according to NPR. Īs of 2003, there were over 600 American cities that had named a street after King. King's home state of Georgia had the most, with 75 streets as of 2001 this had increased to 105 as of 2006. The number of streets named after King is increasing every year, and about 70% of these streets are in states which were members of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas. The first street in the United States named in his honor was Dr.
There are also a number of other countries that have honored Martin Luther King Jr., including Italy and Israel.
can be found in many cities of the United States and in nearly every major metropolis. Streets named after Martin Luther King Jr. in Oak Park, Sacramento, California (December 2014)
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