The Embrace monument on Boston Common recalls the hug between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Crowds gathered to bear witness to the monument's unveiling on Friday.
Attendees at the ceremony celebrate and takes selfies in front of the newly unveiled Embrace sculpture on Boston Common.
“I've studied their writings. I have listened to tapes of them speaking and I have watched videos that showed them in action,” King said. “I feel that they are somehow with me, that our spirits are joined in the quest for a just, loving and peaceful world.”“I am very proud to be their granddaughter, but I am also challenged by their inspiring legacies of vision and courage and hope and healing,” King said. “But I know that I am not alone.
“This is one of the only monuments where four of the five founders are people of color,” Jeffries said. “Two out of the five are women, where the lead architect of the plaza is a Black man. The artist is a Black man and the organization is predominantly Black and Latinx led by a Black person. In every way, this is a celebration of our culture. This is a celebration of the transformation and our survival.
She remembers listening and watching her son move forward with this project. Also a part of this process was her mother, who passed last summer at the age of 100.Just before the speakers began, her son said the same. He knew his grandmother was by his side that day to see his work change the landscape of America’s oldest public park.
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