King championed a movement that draws fully from the deep well of America's potential for freedom, opportunity, and justice. The official vision statement for the King Memorial notes: “ĭr. – the Poor People's Campaign – when he was killed in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was backing the Memphis Sanitation Strike and organizing a mass occupation of Washington, D.C. Īt the time of his death, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and stopping the Vietnam War. In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means. This speech has been canonized as one of the greatest pieces of American oratory. Īt the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, King imagined an end to racial inequality in his " I Have a Dream" speech. Although during his life he was monitored by the FBI for presumed communist sympathies, King is now presented as a heroic leader in the history of modern American liberalism. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, was an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, and advocated for using nonviolent resistance, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi. The King Memorial is administered by the National Park Service (NPS).ĭelivering the "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 Washington, D.C. Īlthough this is not the first memorial to an African American in Washington, D.C., King is the first African American honored with a memorial on or near the National Mall and only the fourth non-President to be memorialized in such a way. delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 but was postponed until October 16 (the 16th anniversary of the 1995 Million Man March on the National Mall) due to Hurricane Irene. A ceremony dedicating the Memorial was scheduled for Sunday, August 28, 2011, the 48th anniversary of the " I Have a Dream" speech that Dr. Ĭovering four acres and including a statue of King by sculptor Lei Yixin, the memorial opened to the public on August 22, 2011, after more than two decades of planning, fund-raising and construction. The official address of the monument, 1964 Independence Avenue, S.W., commemorates the year the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law. The monumental memorial is located at the northwest corner of the Tidal Basin near the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, on a sightline linking the Lincoln Memorial to the northwest and the Jefferson Memorial to the southeast. The national memorial is America's 395th unit in the National Park Service. Memorial is located in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., southwest of the National Mall. In memory of Ricky Lane King, please visit our floral store.Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 668: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.ġ964 Independence Ave. Service: 1:30 pm - Thursday, April 17th 2014 Volzke Funeral Home 147 Main Street Seward, NE 68434 Officiating: Pastor Daniel Schroeder Inurnment: Greenwood Cemetery York, Nebraska Thursday, Apfrom 12:30 until 1:30 PM at Volzke Funeral Home. He was preceded in death by his parents step-father, Kenneth Nienhueser and brothers in law, Steven Lee Petersen and Christopher Copenhaver. Survivors include his brother, Criss King of Seward sisters, Sherry Petersen of Yucaipa, CA Vicky Copenhaver of Seward and Amy (Earl) Chapman of Columbus, OH his nephews, Brian Petersen of California and Brandon Petersen of Arizona and nieces, Angelika Chapman of Ohio and Kira Chapman of Ohio. He enjoyed model trains, die cast cars and trucks. Ricky King, 61, of Seward died April 10, 2014.
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