Memorial to King unveiled
By Molly O'Toole | China Daily | Updated: 2011-08-24 08:29
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Chinese artist Lei Yixin poses in front of his work, the Stone of Hope sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr, on Monday at the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in Washington, DC. The memorial is the first on the National Mall to honor an African-American and the first to honor a person who did not serve as president. Mandel Ngan / Agence France-Presse |
WASHINGTON - Martin Luther King Jr stood nine meters tall as a memorial to him was unveiled on Monday, the first on the National Mall in the nation's capital not dedicated to a war, president or white man.
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