Raleigh Recreation
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Gardens (919) 834-6264
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The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Gardens is a moving tribute honoring the late civil rights leader. It was built in 1989 and is the first public park in the United States devoted to Dr. King and the civil rights movement.
The park is small (one acre) but both poignant and lovely. The King Gardens have a life-sized bronze statue of Dr. King. It is thought to be the only statue of him in his Doctorate robe.
The statue is placed at ground level so you feel like you are looking at him eye-to-eye. It makes him seem approachable. It is moving to see the kids or people shaking his hand or touching his face.
The King Memorial Wall encircling the statue is made of 2,500 named bricks noting individuals from the state and nationally who supported and contributed to the creation of The King Memorial Gardens.
There is also a large interesting granite water monument that honors others pioneers in the civil rights movement.
The garden part of the park has lovely trees, shrubs, and flowers - again it is beautiful and compact. There are benches set around so that people can sit and reflect on the life of this great man.
Admission to the Dr. King Park is free.
"And when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and hamlet, from every state and city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children-black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and Protestants-will be ale to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last".
Dr. Martin Luther King. 1963
Other Raleigh Recreational venues we like are Sarah P. Duke Gardens, the Umstead State Park and Falls Lake.
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Driving Directions: From I-440, take the Wade Ave exit. Continue East on Wade for 3 miles. Merge onto Capital Blvd/Downtown Blvd. Turn onto N Dawson St;Take the Martin Luther King Jr Blvd exit; Turn left at Martin Luther King Jr Blvd; the Park will be on the right.
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