A King's Place: Finding Martin Luther King Jr. In America's Streets

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of the most famous civil rights leaders in U.S. history. But somewhere along the way King’s name became the punch line of a famous Chris Rock joke about MLK boulevards, and it stuck.

So what’s the real story behind MLK named streets?
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