On this MLK Day, there was finally a place in the District where you could pay your respects to the fallen civil rights hero.
King’s thirty-foot granite statue now stands prominently on the Tidal Basin, in sight of monuments and memorials to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt.
It was unveiled last fall, in a ceremony postponed because of the arrival of Hurricane Irene.
But that wasn’t the only storm to hit the memorial – there was also a firestorm of criticism over a monumental misquote carved on the north side of King’s statue.
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