The Freedom Bell - Stone Mountain, GA. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Waymarking.com

“Let Freedom Ring from Stone Mountain, Georgia”. The Freedom Bell is dedicated to Dr King and is located on Main Street in a park next to City Hall in Stone Mountain, GA.

The line “Let Freedom Ring from Stone Mountain, Georgia” is from Dr. King’s "I Have a Dream" speech delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. (source American Rhetoric Top 100 speeches (visit link)

From the speech:

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.


The plaque reads:

The Freedom Bell
“Let Freedom Ring from Stone Mountain, Georgia”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
August 28, 1963

Dedicated
February 26, 2000
Chuck Burris, Mayor



Part of the significant of the reference to Stone Mt, GA, is that the The Ku Klux Klan was revived in Stone Mountain in 1915.
(source Wikipedia - Stone Mountain, Georgia (visit link)

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