Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Marla A. Jackson, quilter

born 1952

Miles Beaty, artist

born 2007

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 2018

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: quilted by Marla Jackson; cotton

Credit line: Courtesy of Miles Beaty

Accession number: EL2018.090

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Eleven-year-old artist Miles Beaty created this quilt during a workshop for children at Marla Jackson’s African American Quilt Museum and Textile Academy in Lawrence. Jackson runs “Beyond the Book,” a student outreach program that teaches visual literacy to youth in Northeast Kansas. Beaty chose to pay homage to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose message of peace and justice for all is as relevant today as it was when Dr. King—who was assassinated in April 1968—was alive.