On the 54th anniversary of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, nearly 50 years after his death and less than a month after an anti-racism protester was allegedly killed by a white supremacist in Charlottesville, Virginia, a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. is scheduled to be erected outside the Georgia State Capitol.
King will be the first black individual to be memorialized on the Capitol grounds, which are dominated by statues of white supremacists like Ku Klux Klan leader John Brown Gordon. Also on the Capitol grounds sits U.S. Sen. Richard Russell, one of the staunchest opponents of the civil rights legislation King pushed for near the end of his life.
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