In November of this past year, the groundbreaking for King’s new memorial was symbolic of his deeply rooted legacy in America. The memorial—the first on the National Mall dedicated to an American leader who was not a president

The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial will be situated adjacent to the F.D.R. Memorial and create a visual “line of leadership” from the Jefferson Memorial to the Lincoln Memorial, where Dr. King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

For more on the Memorial visit Tavis Smiley’s webpage:

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/special/mlkmemorial.html