6-851: (Redirected from MLK Freeway ) The following roads in the United States are named the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway : Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway (Fayetteville) Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway (Portsmouth) Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway (Reno) Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway (San Diego) Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway (Greenville) See also [ edit ] Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard (disambiguation) List of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr. [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
12-489: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway (Fayetteville) Streets named after Martin Luther King Jr. can be found in many cities of the United States and in nearly every major metropolis . There are also a number of other countries that have honored Martin Luther King Jr. , including Italy and Israel. The first street in
18-599: The United States named in his honor was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Chicago in 1968. 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. King's home state of Georgia had
24-747: The most, with 75 streets as of 2001; this had increased to 105 as of 2006. As of 2003, there were over 600 American cities that had named a street after King. By 2004, this number had grown to 650, according to NPR . 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). In 2014 he estimated that there were over 900 streets named after King in 41 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. In 2019, National Geographic published an interactive mapping of more than 1,000 streets around
30-428: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about roads and streets with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Freeway&oldid=1196572506 " Category : Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
36-418: The world named after King. Business owners in the affected parts of cities have objected, claiming that naming a street after Martin Luther King is bad for business. The following is a list of streets named after King in the United States. The "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial highway" includes various portions: Also: As of April 2021 Kansas City, Missouri is no longer the largest U.S. city without
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