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Sculptor Ed Dwight, who created the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, speaks to the media in front of the memorial dedicated to King and other civil rights leaders during a news conference on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, at City Park in Denver, days after the memorial was vandalized. Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb and former First Lady Wilma Webb condemned the vandalism of the Martin Luther King Jr.
A Colorado state representative from 1980 to 1993, Wilma Webb sponsored legislation to designate King’s birthday as a state holiday before it was federally recognized. Additionally, when Wellington Webb was Denver’s mayor in 2000, he and Wilma Webb helped establish the memorial in Denver’s City Park.“This location needs to have lights around it, it also needs to have video cameras,” Wellington Webb said.
Vandalism on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. monument in City Park Denver on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Vandals stole a bronze panel depicting Black Americans who fought in U.S. wars and two decorative bronze emblems, one next to an engraving of the monument’s title. “Whoever took it down, you’re wasting your time; all we’re going to do is put it back up,” said Wellington Webb. “You don’t have enough money to keep taking it down. We’re going to outraise you, we’re going to outwork you and we’re smarter than you.
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