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King Memorial Ceremony Under Way in D.C.
By The Associated Press
November 13, 2006
The
National Mall in Washington will
get its first monument to a black person, the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr.
Ordinary and not-so-ordinary
Americans took part in the groundbreaking Monday, including Oprah
Winfrey, poet-novelist Maya Angelou and former President Bill Clinton.
They're
among those who've been working for more than a decade to bring the monument
about.
The
four-acre site along the Tidal
Basin is
not far from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where King gave his "I Have a
Dream" speech in 1963.
Project
organizers have raised more than $65 million toward the $100-million cost of
building and maintaining the King Memorial. They hope to have it completed by
the spring of 2008. (AP)
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