List of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr.

Streets named after Martin Luther King Jr. can be found in many cities of the United States and in nearly every major metropolis.

The first street in the United States named in his honor was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Chicago in 1968.

[4] 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).

[6] Business owners in the affected parts of cities have often filed objections (and in the case of Kansas City, voted in a referendum to reverse a designation) against streets named for King, making alarmist claims that naming a street after Martin Luther King would cause a severe decline in their businesses, associating violent crimes and homicides with a re-naming and claiming it makes the neighborhoods a King-named road passes through dangerous by proxy, though in many cases there is no correlation with that occurring.

The "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial highway" includes various portions:[31] Also: Deridder:Martin Luther King Dr, Deridder, LA 70634 As of April 2021 Kansas City, Missouri is no longer the largest U.S. city without a street named in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After a three-year battle, the city's parks board unanimously agreed to give Blue Parkway the MLK name Tuesday.