"The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is one of the newer landmarks in Washington, D.C. It was dedicated in 2011. It honors the most prominent leader of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, a leader who died while fighting for racial equality and equal opportunities for all Americans. Readers of this book, an important addition to any social studies and history collection, will learn about the making of the memorial, the symbolism behind it, and the man who inspired it. The accessible text is carefully paired with supporting photographs and historical images"--.