Georgia Senate votes to erect statue to Martin Luther King Jr

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Georgia Senate votes to erect statue to Martin Luther King Jr

BY DAVID BEASLEY
ATLANTA Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:42pm EDT

(Reuters) - The Georgia Senate voted Wednesday to allow the first monument to the late civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr. on the state Capitol grounds.

A portrait of King, who was born just a few blocks away, hangs inside the Capitol building, but there is no other monument to him in or around the site.

The bill, which will now go back to the Georgia House of Representatives, requires that private funds pay for the monument.

During a celebration of King's birthday in January, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, a Republican, pledged to work with state lawmakers to erect a fitting monument to King.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/12/us-usa-georgia-king-idUSBREA2B22O20140312

[Hoyt]

1. The dang bigoted Republicans had to ge shamed into finally doing it.