Boston looks for artist to build Martin Luther King memorial

By adamg on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 10:18am

Mayor Walsh today announced the beginning of a competition for an artist to design and build a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr., who lived on Mass. Ave. in the South End while earning his doctorate at Boston University and preaching at the Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury and who returned to the city in 1965 to lead a civil-rights march from Roxbury to Boston Common.

One challenge for artists: A site has yet to be selected for the memorial - which would be the second dedicated to King, after the "Free at Last" memorial outside Marsh Chapel at BU. The winning design will also honor King's wife, Coretta, whom he met in Boston - she was a student at the New England Conservatory.

MLK Boston, which will found the monument, will hold a meeting next month to let residents voice their ideas. The meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 8 in the Piemonte Room on City Hall's fifth floor.

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Aww.....Mahty really cares about the black community

By Brian Riccio on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 3:58pm.

and it's voice and history! That's why he cut his Hiberian Hall debate from 90 minutes to sixty and then didn't make a single mention of it in on the social media accounts that some poor kid has to manage for his dumb ass.

You know, because he cares!

Hey Marty

By roadman on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 7:30pm.

Where's the proper memorial to honor those who died in the Cocanut Grove fire (and sorry, but a small plate in a sidewalk doesn't count)? Or the memorial to those who perished when that fully loaded trolley car went through an open drawbridge and into the Forth Point Channel?

While Dr. King went on to do some great work for this country, perhaps it's time that we focus on those historical events that have local significance to Boston before giving yet more recognition to a person - no matter how famous - just because they happened to temporarily live in Boston as a student.

We are still waiting for the

By TnD on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 1:12am.

We are still waiting for the Malcolm X statue. I would say this is a good start Roadman

Hey Roadman

By anon on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 9:39am.

Quick - how many slaves lived in Reading before MA abolished slavery?

Got an answer? No? Then you have some homework to do.