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Fri Oct 16, 2015, 08:38 PM Oct 2015

Andrew Young supports Stone Mountain tribute to King

Posted: 1:35 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, 2015
By Ernie Suggs - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

... “My understanding of Dr. King’s nonviolence movement was to create a reconciliation of races and opinions,” Young said. “<King> said, ‘Either we will learn to live together as brothers and sisters or we will perish together as fools.’ I think it is a wonderful symbolism to have a Freedom Bell on Stone Mountain that would honor Dr. King. It is not only a good idea. It is a necessary idea for this nation to pull together.”

Last Sunday, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association announced that, having secured Gov. Nathan Deal’s support, it would begin plans to build a King monument atop Stone Mountain ...

Earlier this week, SCLC leader Charles Steele and local NAACP presidents John Evans of DeKalb and Richard Rose of Atlanta, met with Deal about the project.

Their primary objective is to get all remnants of the Confederacy – from the flags to the carving of the Confederate generals – removed from the state-owned Stone Mountain ...


http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local/andrew-young-supports-stone-mountain-tribute-to-ki/nn4ft/

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