A Moten Elementary School student urged city officials to name the city's new central library for Dr. King.

ID: 4248 ~ Source: Courtesy DC Public Library, Washingtoniana Division
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Education - MLK Library, A Living Memorial
A Moten Elementary School student urged city officials to name the city's new central library for Dr. King.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Education - MLK Library, A Living Memorial

Upon its dedication in August 1972, the DC Public Library’s new central branch—designed by famed modernist architect Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe—became one of the first public buildings in the country to be named in honor of the Reverend Dr. Martin…