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''Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'' is a 1998
public art Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process. It is a specific art genre with its own professional and critical discourse. Public art is visually and physically acce ...
work designed by American artist Erik Blome, located in downtown
Milwaukee Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, Milwaukee ...
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Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
. The bronze sculpture depicts the
civil rights movement The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the Unite ...
leader
Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...
standing on a pedestal of books. It was commissioned by the YWCA of Greater Milwaukee and is located in front of the King Heights apartments.


See also

* '' Children of the West End'' *
Civil rights movement in popular culture The history of the 1954 to 1968 American civil rights movement has been depicted and documented in film, song, theater, television, and the visual arts. These presentations add to and maintain cultural awareness and understanding of the goals, tact ...
* ''Martin Luther King Jr.'' (Wilson sculpture), Washington, D.C. *
Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Austin, Texas) ''Martin Luther King Jr.'' is an outdoor bronze sculpture depicting the Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader of the same name by Jeffrey Varilla and Anna Koh-Varilla, installed on the University of Texas at Austin campus, in Austin ...
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Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Houston) An outdoor 2007 bronze sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. by American artist Ed Dwight is installed in Hermann Park's McGovern Centennial Gardens in Houston, Texas, United States. The sculpture was vandalized with white paint in August 2017. John ...


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on this Martin Luther King Jr. statue

on another statue by the same name in Rocky Mount, North Carolina 1998 establishments in Wisconsin 1998 sculptures Bronze sculptures in Wisconsin Memorials to Martin Luther King Jr. Outdoor sculptures in Milwaukee Sculptures of Martin Luther King Jr. Sculptures of men in Wisconsin Statues in Wisconsin Sculptures of books African-American history of Milwaukee {{Public-art-stub