1978
MARTIN LUTHER KING
The statue depicting civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was inaugurated on May 7, 1978. The statue cast in bronze by the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry in Florence was designed by sculptor Rudolph Torrini. On the base of the statue is engraved:
HIS DREAM – OUR DREAM
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. 1929-1968
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