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Martin Luther King Jr. is an outdoor bronze sculpture depicting the American civil rights leader of the same name by Jeffrey Varilla and Anna Koh-Varilla, installed on the University of Texas at Austin campus, in Austin, Texas. The statue was installed in September 1999. Efforts to erect a monument were initiated by a group of students, who formed the Martin Luther King Jr. Sculpture Foundation in 1987.[1][2][3]
See also
- 1999 in art
- Civil rights movement in popular culture
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Blome sculpture), Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Martin Luther King Jr. (Wilson sculpture), Washington, D.C.
- Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Houston)
References
- ^ "How the MLK Statue Came to the East Mall". Alcalde.texasexes.org. 2 February 2012. Archived from the original on 2 August 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ "2 Texas Statues Embody Century of Racial Views". The New York Times. 10 September 1989. Archived from the original on 2 August 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ "Martin Luther King, Jr. Statue, Austin, TX - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Waymarking.com". Waymarking.com. Archived from the original on 2 August 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
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