Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, monument built between 2009 and 2011 in Washington, D.C.,honouringthe American Baptist minister, social activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr., who led ...
WASHINGTON - As Americans observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, the federal holiday sets the stage for the 10th anniversary of the late civil rights leader’s memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial, which stands near the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, was the first to honor an...
The vision for the monument came in 1996, after Congress authorized Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, to establish a memorial in Washington. After a rigorous design competition with hundreds of entrants, a design was selected in 2000 - a sculpture of King with...
It's called "The Embrace," and to design it, Hank Willis Thomas pored over hundreds of images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King. "There was an intimacy that I saw that wasn't really highlighted often," Thomas said. "Often when you do look clo...
The March on Washington culminated in King’s most famous address, known as the “I Have a Dream” speech, a spirited call for peace and equality that many consider a masterpiece of rhetoric. Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—a monument to the president who a century earlier...
memorial in Washington, DC. King was the leading voice of the nation's modern day civil rights movement, and this is the first major monument built on the National Mall to honor an African American. Martin Luther King Jr. rose to prominence in the 1950's and 60's as the young leader...
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is located in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., southwest of the National Mall. The Memorial is America's 395th unit of the National Park System and is located at the northwest corner of the Tidal Basin near the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial...
"The theft of the bronze pieces from the Thatcher Memorial fountain was unknown until the recovery of the items from the scrap metal business," Denver police wrote in a news release on Tuesday. Dr. Vern L. Howard, chair of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission, says...