The foundation building a monument to honor Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. at the National Mall in Washington D.C. is paying about $800 thousand to the King family for using the civil rights leaders’ words and image.
It’s an arrangement one leading scholar says King would have found offensive.
The memorial includes a 28 foot sculpture depicting King emerging from a chunk of granite. It’s funded almost entirely with private money raised by the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation. The monument will be turned over to the National Park Service once it’s complete.
(Associated Press)
It’s an arrangement one leading scholar says King would have found offensive.
The memorial includes a 28 foot sculpture depicting King emerging from a chunk of granite. It’s funded almost entirely with private money raised by the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation. The monument will be turned over to the National Park Service once it’s complete.
(Associated Press)
