MLK, Prophet for Peace - Pueblo, CO
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N 38° 17.760 W 104° 36.740
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This controversial sculpting of Martin Luther King has made this monument more a joke than memorial of the Civil Rights struggle. The sculpture used to be in Denver's City Park.
Waymark Code: WMMAE4
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 08/21/2014
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This statue was originally in Denver's City Park (I remember it in the 1980s). The piece features a very large-headed Martin Luther King in deacon's robe walking with Emmet Till (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till ). The piece was sculpted in 1976 by Ed Rose. In 2002 the statue was moved to the Martin Luther King Jr. Museum and Cultural Center in Pueblo, Colorado. It now sits in this vacant lot in a neighborhood well away from central Pueblo. (see (
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"MLK Statue With Big Head
Built in the 1970s, the Martin Luther King Jr figure wears flowing robes and walks with Emmett Till, another Civil Rights martyr. The artist wasn't paid for years by the client, because MLK's head was so big. The artist argued that MLK had a big head, and eventually got his money." (from (
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