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Neighborhoods with MLK streets are poorer than national average and highly segregated, study reveals
The United States has 955 streets named after Martin Luther King Jr.. Katherine Welles/Shutterstock, CC BY-SA Sweta Tiwari, Saint Louis University and Shrinidhi Ambinakudige, Mississippi State University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Poverty rates are almost double the national average in areas surrounding streets named after