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Article: National King Memorial slated for beginning in Washington in 2003. (National Report).(Brief Article)
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- March 18, 2002
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Citing the establishment of an honorary Congressional Committee for the proposed Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, Harry E. Johnson, president of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, announced the ground-breaking exercises for the monument would take place in November of 2003.
Johnson said a panel of international architects and designers has selected the Memorial design created by the ROMA Group, based in San Francisco from among more than 900 design submissions.
President Bill Clinton signed a Congressional Resolution in 1998 that authorized a memorial for Dr. King to be built on the National Mall. The site was ...