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The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is a 4-acre monument of stone, trees and water honoring the slain civil rights leader located along the Tidal Basin, August 22, 2011. King will be the first African-American honored with a monument on Washington's National Mall and the dedication will be Sunday, August 29, the 48th anniversary of his "I Have A Dream" speech. (Andre Chung/MCT)
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The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is a 4-acre monument of stone, trees and water honoring the slain civil rights leader located along the Tidal Basin, August 22, 2011. King will be the first African-American honored with a monument on Washington's National Mall and the dedication will be Sunday, August 29, the 48th anniversary of his "I Have A Dream" speech. (Andre Chung/MCT)
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The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is a 4-acre monument of stone, trees and water honoring the slain civil rights leader located along the Tidal Basin, August 22, 2011. King will be the first African-American honored with a monument on Washington's National Mall and the dedication will be Sunday, August 29, the 48th anniversary of his "I Have A Dream" speech. (Andre Chung/MCT)
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Visitors enter the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, a 4-acre monument of stone, trees and water honoring the slain civil rights leader located along the Tidal Basin, August 22, 2011. King will be the first African-American honored with a monument on Washington's National Mall and the dedication will be Sunday, August 29, the 48th anniversary of his "I Have A Dream" speech. (Andre Chung/MCT)
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Wiley Jones, of Bowie, Maryland, stops by the monuments during his lunch break. "It's absolutely amazing," he says. "It stands as a tribute to those whose shoulders I stand on; and this is a reminder of that. This is a monument to decency and goodness. We should remember, because we don't act like it now," he says of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is a 4-acre monument of stone, trees and water honoring the slain civil rights leader located along the Tidal Basin, August 22, 2011. King will be the first African-American honored with a monument on Washington's National Mall and the dedication will be Sunday, August 29, the 48th anniversary of his "I Have A Dream" speech. (Andre Chung/MCT)
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Nicholas Grant, 14, of Alexandria, Virginia, reads one of the inscriptions. "It's impressive," he said of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is a 4-acre monument of stone, trees and water honoring the slain civil rights leader located along the Tidal Basin, August 22, 2011. King will be the first African-American honored with a monument on Washington's National Mall and the dedication will be Sunday, August 29, the 48th anniversary of his "I Have A Dream" speech. (Andre Chung/MCT)
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Rita Mistry takes a photo of her family in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, a 4-acre monument of stone, trees and water honoring the slain civil rights leader located along the Tidal Basin, August 22, 2011. King will be the first African-American honored with a monument on Washington's National Mall and the dedication will be Sunday, August 29, the 48th anniversary of his "I Have A Dream" speech. The eleven members of the Mistry family were visiting from both Boston and England. (Andre Chung/MCT)
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Ed Jackson, Jr., the executive architect for the project, addresses media at the site of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, a 4-acre monument of stone, trees and water honoring the slain civil rights leader located along the Tidal Basin, August 22, 2011. King will be the first African-American honored with a monument on Washington's National Mall and the dedication will be Sunday, August 29, the 48th anniversary of his "I Have A Dream" speech. (Andre Chung/MCT)
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Reporters from around the world attend the media preview of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, a 4-acre monument of stone, trees and water honoring the slain civil rights leader located along the Tidal Basin, August 22, 2011. King will be the first African-American honored with a monument on Washington's National Mall and the dedication will be Sunday, August 29, the 48th anniversary of his "I Have A Dream" speech. (Andre Chung/MCT)
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Master Lei Yixin, the sculptor responsible for the Mountain of Despair and the Stone of Hope at the memorial, stands in front of his work, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, a 4-acre monument of stone, trees and water honoring the slain civil rights leader located along the Tidal Basin, August 22, 2011. King will be the first African-American honored with a monument on Washington's National Mall and the dedication will be Sunday, August 29, the 48th anniversary of his "I Have A Dream" speech. (Andre Chung/MCT)
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The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is a 4-acre monument of stone, trees and water honoring the slain civil rights leader located along the Tidal Basin, August 22, 2011. King will be the first African-American honored with a monument on Washington's National Mall and the dedication will be Sunday, August 29, the 48th anniversary of his "I Have A Dream" speech. (Andre Chung/MCT)
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