Ivan Allen Jr., 1993

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In 1981 Allen received the Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize, presented by Coretta Scott King. A year after his death in 2003 the city of Atlanta honored their former mayor by naming a street after him.

Courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Ivan Allen Jr., 1993

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