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TitleMartin Luther King, Jr.

Creator nameGodwin, Abbe

Creator name (description)Photo by Dell Upton

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1989–1991

Object typeSculpture

LocationRaleigh, North Carolina

SubjectsMemorialsCivil rights movements--United States--History--20th centuryStatues--United StatesPortrait sculpture, AmericanPublic sculpture

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Introduction: What Can and Can’t Be Said

Dell Upton

Description: What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the...

What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South

In the spring of 1999 twenty members of Congress traveled to Alabama to visit sites and monuments associated with the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Georgia representative John Lewis, a renowned veteran of the movement, had asked members of Congress of both parties to join him on the pilgrimage to inspire them...

Author

Dell Upton

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-24

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00240.001

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Chapter subject tags:Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th centuryMemorialsKing, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--MonumentsSepulchral monumentsSlavery--History

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