What's more, this towering sculpture opened to the public ... on the National Park Service's official Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial page. DC Monuments and Memorials Night Tour (5962 reviews ...

"The goal is a sculpture — a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr.," Silverman wrote in his submission. "My objective is to provide a place congenial to people where this sculpture will be placed.

Despite weighing four tons and standing 16-feet high, the sculpture has been moved multiple times and endured an odyssey of obscurity and disrepair.

Meet the Architect Behind the MLK Memorial in DC Bonnie Fisher is the Landscape Architect who designed the Martin Luther King Junior Memorial in Washington D.C. with her husband, Boris Dramov.

Titled Dr. Martin Luther King ... DC—her grandparents had been enslaved. Catlett made the King bust for a National Endowment for the Arts competition that would see a sculpture commemorating ...