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4 unusual facts about Martin Luther King Jr.


Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway

The P2 ("East Busway Short") operates only between Wilkinsburg and Downtown and also makes a loop through Downtown.

It was named after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in recognition of the fact that the eastern portion of the route serves many predominantly African-American neighborhoods, such as Wilkinsburg and East Liberty.

Raquel Partnoy

Through her series of paintings “Surviving Genocide,” which was shown at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in 2003, Partnoy depicted her family experiences during the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976–1983) when 30,000 persons disappeared and were eventually killed by state terrorism.

Salt-n-Pepa

On July 30, 2012 Salt-N-Pepa opened up for rap group Public Enemy in Brooklyn, New York as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series.


Arthur Renowitzky

Arthur cites American inspirational public figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Pauley Perrette, Michael Jordan, Eminem, Steve Jobs, Nas, Lupe Fiasco, Jay-Z and 2Pac as major influences, with 2Pac being his biggest.

Debi Thomas

Thomas followed this with a surgical residency at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Hospital and an orthopedic surgery residency at the Martin Luther King Jr./Charles Drew University Medical Center in South Central Los Angeles.

G. Robert Blakey

Blakey was Chief Counsel and Staff Director to the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations from 1977 to 1979, which investigated the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. under the direction of Louis Stokes.

Good Ol' Boys Roundup

T-shirts were sold showing Martin Luther King Jr.'s face in sniper crosshairs, O. J. Simpson's head in a noose and black men sprawled across police cruisers with the phrase "Boyz on the Hood".

I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto

Mother Teresa is seen getting on a bus, and already on the bus are Jimi Hendrix, Martin Luther King Jr., a Black Panther Party member, and Elvis Presley.

Jon Sen

As a writer, his work includes 4.4.68, a radio play about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (part of the Sony Award winning 1968 season), an adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel Two on A Tower and Vanunu: A Time To Be Heard a drama about the controversial interview between Mordechai Vanunu and journalist Peter Hounam.

Original Fire

It featured the band playing with images of figures that are inspirational to the band, such as Johnny Cash, Martin Luther King Jr., Che Guevara, Chuck D, The Clash, Bob Dylan, Wendy O. Williams, Peter Tosh, Jello Biafra, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Jim Morrison, the Million Man March, Andy Warhol, Ozzy Osbourne, Janis Joplin, Joey Ramone, Randy Rhoads, Malcolm X, Glenn Danzig, Iggy Pop and Nelson Mandela.

Peter Gee

He also printed silkscreens of Betsy Johnson and her colleague Penelope Tree, Betsy Johnson's lips, Martin Luther King Jr, and the famous Puck Building in New York City.

Roman De Salvo

His 2003 work Crab Carillon was installed on a bridge spanning the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway in San Diego.

Silas Bissell

When Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated and activists stormed Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Silas and Judith joined a Seattle draft resistance group.

The Irresistible Revolution

Claiborne's writing style relies heavily on personal anecdotes and quotations from Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., theologians and writers such as Walter Wink, John Howard Yoder, Francis of Assisi, and C.S. Lewis, as well as The Bible.

The Well-Spoken Thesaurus

In "Rhetorical Form and Design," Heehler serves up 17 lessons from such writers and speakers as T.S. Eliot, Margaret Atwood, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., and Cintra Wilson.

Walter George Muelder

He was credited by Martin Luther King Jr., a student of his at Boston (as well as Coretta Scott King in later years), as being an important influence in Dr. King’s pilgrimage to nonviolence as a philosophy of social change.

WGXA

Owned by Frontier Radio Management, it has studios on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (GA 11/GA 22/GA 49/U.S. 80/U.S. 129) in Downtown Macon.

WGXA-DT2

Known on-air as ABC 16 after WGXA's physical digital channel location, its parent station has studios on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (GA 11/GA 22/GA 49/U.S. 80/U.S. 129) in Downtown Macon.


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Ben Branch

As musical director for the SCLC's Operation Breadbasket he led the Breadbasket Orchestra and Choir that performed benefits for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Operation/PUSH.

Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District

The neighborhood encompasses the land between the Dan Ryan Expressway to the west, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Clarence Benjamin Jones

In summing up his sentiments on King’s life, Jones remarked in a 2007 interview: “Except for Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Martin Luther King, Jr., in 12 years and 4 months from 1956 to 1968, did more to achieve political, economic, and social justice in America than any other event or person in the previous 400 years” (Jones, 18 May 2007).

Howard Thurman

He served as spiritual advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sherwood Eddy, James Farmer, A. J. Muste, and Pauli Murray.

Memphis Parkway System

Designed by George Kessler, the Parkway System connects Martin Luther King Jr.

Peer Health Exchange

Undergraduate volunteers at Barnard College and Columbia University teach the PHE health curriculum to teenagers in six New York City, New York high schools: Facing History School; Heritage School; Martin Luther King Jr.

South Downtown

Peachtree Street, south of the railroad gulch, has a multitude of stores along its stretch between Alabama Street and Martin Luther King Jr.

U.S. Route 421 in Indiana

US 421 was routed on Southeastern Avenue, Washington Street, Northwestern Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Street), and Michigan Road.

Originally, US 421 followed Southeastern Ave. into downtown Indianapolis, where it merged with US 40 (Washington St.) to West Street, then turned north, following West Street, Northwestern Avenue (later Martin Luther King Jr. Street), and Michigan Road up to the northwest side of the city.