The first public library in the U.S. named for Martin Luther King Jr. — and the architect who designed it — have been honored in the King-Lincoln Bronzeville neighborhood as a critical part of our state's history.
Decades later
, King's eldest son attended the 2018 dedication of the present branch at 1467 Long St. and urged support for public libraries. "When my grandfather addressed the audience that gathered on the dedication nearly half a century ago, he urged the community to make friends with books,"Both libraries were designed by notable Black architects.
Ransom, who helped start the city's first Black-led architectural firm in 1964, designed what would become the MLK Branch Library a few years later.to be a "metaphorical response to the MLK monument in Washington, D.C., that reads: 'Out of a mountain of sorrow, a stone of hope.'"The legacy of those who made history developing the King-Lincoln Bronzeville neighborhood lives on.of Ransom smiling during a tour of the library he designed.
On Wednesday, when the unveiling ceremony ended, his relatives gazed at the marker and photo with what appeared to be great pride in what he had built.
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