A monument to American Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a popular tourist site outside Brown Chapel AME Church. Brown Chapel was a headquarters for the voting rights movement in Selma during the 1960s, and King led numerous mass meetings there. King was assassinated in Memphis, TN. on April 4, 1968.
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Looks as though some words have been deleted from that long passage on the monument.
Is it possible? Was it a typo?
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Annula,
Very good observation and I don't know! I have looked through other official photos of the monument, and they just show the first paragraph up. I'm gonna find out what happened.
Thanks!
Hi Annulla,
I have finally tracked down the deletion on the monument. There was a mistake (though I haven't yet found out what the mistake was), and that section was taken out and replaced with a different type of stone.
there's still a serious typo - "i had a dream"
that should be fixed
Hi Mica, You are quite observant! In the speech, King stated, "I HAVE a dream..." '
But, I am not sure if the designers of this monument intended to use "have" or "had."
Thanks for pointing that out.
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