Kings criticize civil rights museum site
© 2006 The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Two of Martin Luther King Jr.'s children say a proposed civil rights museum should be near their father's grave instead of in the city's tourism hub.
The 2.5-acre site that Coca-Cola Co. offered two weeks ago for the museum is near the Georgia Aquarium, the CNN Center and the future World of Coca-Cola Museum. Some city leaders say the civil rights museum should be less than two miles away near Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King preached, and the King Center, where he and his wife, Coretta Scott King, are buried.
"I would hope that we as a community and a city, if we were going to erect a civil rights museum, it would be in the King historic district," Martin Luther King III said told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
His sister, Bernice King, noted that the district already contains her father's birth home and other significant civil rights landmarks.
"It just seems appropriate to place something of this magnitude, a civil and human rights museum, in a place where it has more of a historical context," she said.
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