This MLK Weekend: See DC’s Overlooked Memorials
If you’re in town over the long MLK weekend, chances are you may see the major memorials and monuments on the National Mall: Vietnam, Korean, Lincoln, Washington, maybe World War II, FDR and Jefferson, too. But don’t let those be your only sightseeing destination. Beyond …
MLK Jr. Memorial: The Capital’s Most Unique Monument
As our country’s history of racial inequality and segregation recedes slowly into the past, generations of future Washington, DC visitors will find it hard to fathom a time when African-Americans did not have the same rights as white Americans. But the civil rights movement isn’t …
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial: What to Know
With the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial opening to the public just last summer, this will be the first MLK Day you’ll be able to visit the memorial. If Monday draws even a fraction of the thousands of people who attended the memorial’s dedication in …
MLK Memorial Opens
Photo: Reuters Hundreds of people lined up today to be the first to visit MLK Memorial, a national landmark dedicated Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. King is the first non-president and first African-American to …
Places to Honor Martin Luther King, Jr.
Photo: Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, March 1965. (Getty Images) On January 17, 2011, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the holiday recognizing one of America’s greatest heroes — Dr. Martin Luther King …
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