When King died in 1968, black communities clamored to change their streets to his name. (It took Haarlem, in the Netherlands, only a week to name a street after him; one appeared in Mainz, West Germany, in three weeks. Still, an MLK street didn’t appear in Atlanta, MLK’s birthplace, for eight years.) Nearly nine hundred streets in the United States are named after Martin Luther King Jr. There are MLK streets in Senegal, Israel, Zambia, South Africa, France, and Australia, too.
