Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park
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The Central Area today has increased its economic activity, while still remaining the site of such crucial community institutions as the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center and Mount Zion Baptist Church.
A homegrown campaign built the Martin Luther King, Jr. Park here turning a vacant hillside into a 4.2 acre memorial to the slain civil rights leader. Its center piece is a 30-foot sculpture in a reflecting pool; tiles describe the important events and inspiring words of Dr. King's life, and display the names of the many contributors to the memorial.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park is a four-and-a-half acre City of Seattle park on the east side of Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, between South Walker and South Bayview Streets. The park is designed around a black granite 'mountain' - a dramatic, thirty-foot sculpture inspired by the civil rights leader's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech, made the day before he was assassinated in 1968.
Acreage: 4.30 acres
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park Website
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