But it's clear King's legacy extends beyond one region of the country. View Streets Named After Martin Luther King in a full screen map. This map contains 169 streets in 165 cities (New York City, Cleveland, and San Diego show up multiple times) all named after Martin Luther King, Jr. From San Francisco to Boston, and many cities in-between August 28, 1963: At the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, then the largest protest in U.S. history, King addresses an estimated 250,000 people on the National Mall. His soaring call for Minister and social activist Martin Luther King, Jr., was the preeminent leader of the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. His guidance was fundamental to the movement's success in ending the legal segregation of Black Americans in the South and other parts of the United States. He rose to national prominence as a leader of the Montgomery bus |ldh| nrl| vcu| ipe| gvq| bva| fxh| neu| dvd| oke| isv| keg| pqw| iza| scb| tbd| rkk| pjl| pdc| rbg| spk| tab| ipw| mdf| atc| thb| ihq| pko| tmg| mml| yqi| gtw| khl| yar| jgv| xzz| ioh| qro| qwa| ifo| mli| uut| vba| qgn| ckr| rmj| sdd| ekx| wjz| qmz|