When Portland’s Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard got its name, and then its ‘Dream’ statue

When Portland’s Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard got its name, and then its ‘Dream’ statue

Martin Luther King Jr. was an integral part of the long fight for racial equality in the United States. After he was assassinated, there was a nationwide movement to rename streets in the civil rights leader’s honor.Chicago was the first city to do so. It renamed South Parkway in 1968, just months after his death. The idea caught on, and now there are hundreds of streets and freeways named for King in the U.S. Streets were renamed in his honor i…