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For many US towns and cities, deciding which streets to name after MLK reflects his unfinished work

  • Written by Derek H. Alderman, Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
Where Davis meets King.Editor, CC BY-SA

More than 1,000 streets in the world bear the name of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

At least 955 of those streets can be found in the U.S. They’re in 41 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Martin Luther King streets cross a diversity of neighborhoods – rural and...

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