The UK’s first blue heritage plaque honouring Martin Luther King has been unveiled in central London.
It has been installed on Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, Shaftesbury Avenue, where Dr King spoke in 1961.
He made a flying visit to the capital two years before his iconic “I have a dream” speech.
Camden Council and the Nubian Jak Community Trust collaborated on the plaque, which is also the first to be put on a place of worship.
The 1961 sermon urged people to live lives of “equal length, breadth, and height”.
A “long” life was one where a person’s talents are developed to the full, a “broad” life had a concern for the welfare of others, and a life of “height” recognised the need for God as the pinnacle of a complete life.
Martin Luther King was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.