Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Houston)

An outdoor 2007 bronze sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. by American artist Ed Dwight^[1] is installed in Hermann Park's McGovern Centennial Gardens in Houston, Texas, United States.^[2] The sculpture was vandalized with white paint in August 2017. John D. Harden, Margaret Kadifa, Mike Morris, and Brooke A. Lewis of the Houston Chronicle noted that the vandalism occurred around the same time that protesters demanded the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials in Houston, and the same day that the city's statue of Christopher Columbus was vandalized with red paint.^[3]

Statue of Martin Luther King Jr.
Artist	Ed Dwight
Year	2007 (2007)
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Bronze
Subject	Martin Luther King Jr.
Location	Houston, Texas, United States
Coordinates	29.721324°N 95.388325°W / 29.721324; -95.388325

See also

• 2007 in art
• Civil rights movement in popular culture
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Blome sculpture), Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Martin Luther King Jr. (Wilson sculpture), Washington, D.C.
• List of public art in Houston
• Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Austin, Texas)