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By Theodore
Fischer, Washington Sidewalk
Lincoln Memorial.
Setting of famed "I Have a Dream" speech (Aug. 28, 1963)
delivered to an audience of a quarter-million people to culminate the
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Willard Hotel. King wrote "I Have a Dream" in his room at
the Willard (now the Willard Inter-Continental), 14th Street and
Pennsylvania N.W.
Martin Luther King Memorial Library. Opened in 1972, the D.C.
public library system's main branch is the only building in the city
designed by noted Bauhaus architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The
56-foot-long King Mural (1986) by Don Miller, in the main lobby,
vividly renders the highlights of King's life and career. Copies of the King
Mural, on posters or postcards, are available at the library's Books
Plus kiosk.
Newseum. Freedom Park, outside the Newseum, displays a bronze
casting of the door to the Birmingham, Ala., jail cell where King was
confined in April 1963.
Churches. King attended the memorial Mass for JFK at St.
Matthew's Cathedral. He delivered his final Sunday sermon from the
Canterbury Pulpit of Washington National Cathedral.
A. Philip Randolph. If King is the father of the civil rights
movement, Randolph, leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, is
its grandfather. The 1963 March on Washington was conceived by Randolph,
whose statue stands opposite Gate D in the train concourse of Union
Station.
King mural. Check out the much-larger-than-life portrait of MLK –
along with Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and a typical family
dinner – on the Southern Avenue wall of the Benning Park Community
Center, 51st and Fitch streets S.E.
Martin Luther King Jr. Recreational Park. A major facility in the
White Oak section of Silver Spring with an indoor swimming pool, a fishing
pond (Martin Luther King Lake) stocked with trout and the unique
Playground for All Children, which includes equipment for children with
special needs.
King streets. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in southeast D.C.;
formerly Asylum Avenue, it runs through St. Elizabeth's Hospital; and
Martin Luther King Jr. Highway, Route 704 in Prince George's County from
Seat Pleasant at the D.C. line to Annapolis Road near Bowie, Md.
King schools. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, Sixth
Street and Alabama Avenue S.E.; Martin Luther King Middle School, 4545
Ammendale Rd., Beltsville, Md.; Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School,
13736 Wisteria Dr., Germantown, Md.; Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
School, 13224 Nickleson Dr., Dale City, Va.
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