Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

The Martin Luther King, Junior, Memorial is defined by a thirty-foot granite figure of Doctor King, carved to appear as if he is emerging from a massive, split boulder. This centerpiece, known as the Stone of Hope, stands apart from two other large granite segments that symbolize the Mountain of Despair. The design is a physical interpretation of a line from King’s nineteen sixty-three speech at the March on Washington: "With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope."