1988 Performing Arts Center in Anchorage, which opened later that year. The original proposal was to name the PAC after Martin Luther King Jr. After a severe racist backlash, a negative city vote, several alternative suggestions (e.g., 9th Ave) & many years, a stretch of road that no one lives on was named for MLK in 2010. #alaskahistory#alaska#anchoragehistory
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