FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Contact: Robert Vickers
Email: communications@thekingcenter.org
Phone: 404-526-8946
Fax: 404-526-8969
New York, New York
December 2, 1999
STATEMENT FROM DEXTER SCOTT KING
Mr. Dexter Scott King, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc.
today issued the following statement concerning the vote by the National
Capital Planning Commission to approve building a memorial honoring his
father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the Mall in Washington, D.C. The
King Center has been involved in this effort through membership on the
Alpha Phi Alpha National Memorial Project Team, which was instrumental
in this historic achievement.
It is gratifying that the commission has reached an acceptable compromise.
It is fitting and appropriate that this memorial will be situated near
the monuments to Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt, four of
America’s most visionary leaders. My father’s, and the Civil
Rights Movement’s contributions to democracy are very much in keeping
with the spirit of these Presidents’ legacies.
As members of the National Memorial Project Team we have seen firsthand
the uphill battle in which the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity has been involved
to make the approval of the Tidal Basin site a reality. My family and
I applaud the Alpha’s and congratulate them on this accomplishment.
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