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Civil War vets remembered; A longtime American Legion officer organized a service Sunday beneath the statue of Col. Josias R. King, Minnesota's first Union Army volunteer.(NEWS)

The bronze statue of Col. Josias R. King towers over downtown St. Paul as a tribute to the Civil War veteran and all the Minnesotans who stepped forward to fight in the War Between the States. Martin Weddington, 83, remembers playing around the base of the statue as a child, even then appreciating

Publication: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)

Beaumont, Texas, Directive on Funding Martin Luther King Statue Stirs Emotions.

Byline: Beth Gallaspy Aug. 7--BEAUMONT, Texas--Efforts to top an empty pedestal with a statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the street that bears his name have been stymied for the past year by a city directive that prevented fund-raising, the head of a city commission told City Council on

Publication: The Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX)

King statue being made by Chinese -- Some here would like to be creating memorial to civil rights leader

WASHINGTON - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once famously dreamed of one day hewing "out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope." Luther Hampton, an artist and sculptor in Memphis, and hundreds of others around the country, want the stone of hope honoring King on the National Mall here to be hewn

Publication: The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

'NICE' KING STATUE UNDERMINES LEGACY.(OPINION)(WILLIAM WINEKE)(Column)

The United States Commission on Fine Arts has done something to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that generations of white supremacists never accomplished. It has made him less "confrontational." The supremacists tried to get him to tone down his message, but never succeeded. What the commission did

Publication: The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)

Statue of Dr. King unveiled in Capitol

SPRINGFIELD A statue of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was unveiled in the Capitol rotunda Thursday morning as part of the birthday observance for the slain civil rights leader. Guided by Gov. Thompson, two small children - one black, the other white - joined to unveil the life-size likeness

Publication: Chicago Sun-Times