August 22, 2011 | 11:15 AM | By

“D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton On The Opening Of The MLK Memorial”

The public dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will take place Aug. 28, but it will be open for public viewing Tuesday for “D.C. Residents’ Day.”


“It’s important for the nation, and especially for the District of Columbia, 48 years later to see that in fact the nation has come some distance,” Norton says. “Who would have thought when I was a kid growing up in Washington, which was a segregated city, where the ‘N-word’ was used in the Senate right on the floor, that there would be a black man whose monument would be dedicated on the National Mall.”

— wamu.org