State Farm® Donates To National Monument

From State Farm Times, May 2006

State Farm Insurance® has donated $1 million to help build a memorial honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington, D.C. “State Farm Insurance is proud to take a leadership role in honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. with a permanent structure on the National Mall, ” said Ed Rust Jr., Chairman and CEO.

The four-acre memorial will be situated adjacent to the F.D.R. Memorial and in a direct line between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. The memorial will include a “Stone of Hope” which will be a sculptural representation of Dr. King looking across the Tidal Basin to the Jefferson Memorial. Also, within the memorial, quotes from Dr. King’s sermons and speeches, arranged chronologically, are to be inscribed on a large scale on the glistening smooth surfaces of the water wall.

Groundbreaking is scheduled for late this year with completion expected in 2008. For more information about the Memorial, please visit www.buildthedream.org.

Quick facts on Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

  • In 1996, Congress passed Joint Resolutions authorizing a memorial honoring Dr. King to be built in Washington, D.C.
  • The Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc. was created to raise funds to build the monument. So far, the Foundation has raised more than half of the $100 million to complete the project.
  • In supporting the memorial, State Farm has joined other major contributors such as General Motors, Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Foundation, NBA/WNBA, The Walt Disney Company, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, George Lucas and others.

 
 

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