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The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park covers about 35 acres (0.14 km 2) and includes several sites in Atlanta, Georgia related to the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is a national memorial located in West Potomac Park next to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. [2] It covers four acres (1.6 ha) and includes the Stone of Hope, a granite statue of civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. carved by sculptor Lei Yixin.
In 1981, the organization's headquarters were moved into the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park facility on Auburn Avenue which includes King's birth home and the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he preached from 1960 until his death. [2] In 1994, Dexter King succeeded his mother as director of the organization. [3]
The bronze bust on a granite base is the first memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. in Savannah. [20] In 2010, a statue of Martin Luther King Jr., sculpted by Zenos Frudakis, was installed in the Martin Luther King Memorial Park adjacent to the J. Lewis Crozer Library in Chester, Pennsylvania. The statue is 5 feet (1.5 m) tall and 685 pounds ...
MLK Jr. Day is a federal ... Museums pay homage to King. In Washington, D.C., the National Museum of African American History and Culture was marking King's birthday with a service project to make ...
The statue was dedicated on January 11, 1990, by Coretta Scott King, the widowed wife of Martin Luther King Jr. [1] The statue was an unsolicited gift to The King Center, and initially the center had concerns over the work's artistic merit. [2] The piece is located in a small park near Ebenezer Baptist Church. [3]
A visitor looks closely at the original copy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in ...
National Civil Rights Museum's renovated ... who continued the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the wake ... from which James Earl Ray shot King — and its adjacent Founders Park, ...