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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 04, 2006 - 09:03 am: | 
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Kings Blast Location of Proposed Museum
AP Photo/KEVIN WOLF
Nov 4, 7:28 AM EST
ATLANTA (AP) -- Two of Martin Luther King Jr.'s children say a proposed civil rights museum should be near their father's grave instead of in the city's tourism hub.
The 2.5 acre site Coca-Cola Co. offered two weeks ago for the museum is near the Georgia Aquarium, the CNN Center and the future World of Coca-Cola Museum. Some city leaders say the civil rights museum should be near Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King preached, and the King Center, where he and his wife, Coretta Scott King, are buried.
"I would hope that we as a community and a city, if we were going to erect a civil rights museum, it would be in the King historic district," Martin Luther King III said.
His sister, Bernice King, noted that the district already contains her father's birth home and other significant civil rights landmarks.
"It just seems appropriate to place something of this magnitude, a civil and human rights museum, in a place where it has more of a historical context," she said.
But Xernona Clayton, who worked closely with King and traveled with Coretta Scott King on concert tours to raise money for the movement, said the Coke site is ideal.
"What better place to have the accessibility than a place where you have high traffic and is convenient for all to see the research," Clayton said. "I would share with others the sentimentality attached to Auburn Avenue, but I have not heard where anyone has offered anything on Auburn Avenue."
A Coke spokesman said the company had no comment. |
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