Talk:List of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr.

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Questions[edit]

  • What was the first city to name a street after King?
  • What's the largest city that does not have such a street?
  • What was the former name of each street on the list? When was it renamed?

Gazpacho 00:54, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And how about instances where streets renamed to some variation of the MLK theme have later been changed back to their original name, or to some other name? Surely there must be at least a few. 70.178.60.181 (talk) 05:04, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Prominent examples[edit]

Why are Seattle and Portland cited as prominent examples? Do those cities have anything to do with Dr. King's life, civil rights, or African-American culture? If the criterion for "prominent" means that the street passes through a largely-minority section of the city, then several hundred other cities would be candidates for inclusion. 66.168.64.187 22:34, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seattle is included because I created the page, I needed some cities to start with, and being in the Seattle area I happen to know where its MLK street is. Gazpacho 07:09, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
And meanwhile, a city such as Indianapolis, which is where Robert Kennedy received the news of MLK's death, is left out. Not only does Indy have an MLK Boulevard, there is also a monument on the location of RFK's speech following MLK's assassination. GalacticCowboy (talk) 23:17, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Seattle is in King County. Originally King County was named for William Rufus Devane King, who served briefly as Vice President under Franklin Pierce. King was from Alabama, and he owned slaves. Apparently, someone in Seattle stumbled across a history book, picked it up, and read it, and was absolutely shocked -- shocked I tell you -- to learn the origin of the King County name. At the same time being somewhat practical folk, they decided it would cost a lot of money to change the name of the county something other than King, so they "renamed" it for Martin Luther King.Alexander Springstea (talk) 01:12, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What about Martin Luther King Boulevard in Detroit? Or is that not prominent enough? Tim in CAnada. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.34.225.122 (talk) 01:54, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there's an invitation at the top to add to the list. (Since the last comment, people have been doing it.) dr-t

Math doesn't work[edit]

If there are more than 600 streets named MLK, there cannot be more than 75% of these found in six states, if even the state with the most streets named MLK, Georgia, has only 75 streets total. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.150.228.122 (talk) 13:51, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Counts in 2003 and 2006 -- Cleanup needed[edit]

The text has two paragraphs at the top -- "In 2003" and "In 2006" -- which have almost the same text. Needs cleanup.hadley (talk) 03:51, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. --Onore Baka Sama (talk) 16:13, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Long Beach[edit]

Long Beach has Martin Luther King Ave., which runs behind Poly High School, the same high school attended by rapper Snoop Dogg and actress Cameron Diaz. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.108.16.159 (talk) 23:43, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of the 11[edit]

There should be a list of the 11 states which lack a Martin Luther King named street. NECRATSpeak to me 02:28, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done. dr-t

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Martin Luther King? Or African-American?[edit]

I'm confused. Under the Washington D.C. entry there is a description of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue which includes information about Frederick Douglass's home and mentions other civil-rights figures. I wonder if we shouldn't be a bit more careful to make sure this list is about streets named after Dr. King, and not just an all-purpose page about African-Americans in general.dr-t 21:10, 5 August 2018 (UTC)dr-t

Martin Luther King Jr was honored by Pres Obama administration 2601:C4:8301:DE90:B5E7:261E:A9E1:655A (talk) 21:19, 5 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And now I see that there's a reference to Malcolm X in the listing for Lansing, Michigan. These really need to be removed. This is a list specifically of streets and roads named after Dr. King, not an all-purpose Black History page. Also, @2601:C4:8301:DE90:B5E7:261E:A9E1:655A: I'm glad President Obama honored Dr. King, but what does this have to do with street names? dr-t 01:21, 28 August 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr-t (talk • contribs)

Chicago or Tampa?[edit]

Chicago is identified as "the first city in the world" to name a street after Dr. King. But Tampa is identified as "the first" to do so, on April 11, 1968, one week after the assassination. Obviously, at least one of them can't be right. (Is it possible that Tampa was the first in Florida to rename a street in Dr. King's honor, and that this is what was meant? And if so, did Chicago do so before Tampa, in the first few days after the tragedy?) Rontrigger (talk) 18:38, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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