Thousands of people, including President Bush and former President Bill Clinton, are attending groundbreaking ceremonies for a major memorial to U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., today.
The memorial, scheduled for completion in 2008, will be located near the site where King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to civil rights activists gathered in Washington in 1963.
It will be the first monument honoring an African-American to be located on the famous National Mall in Washington.
The Mall is a grassy field four kilometers long, centered in the heart of the nation's capitol and flanked by museums and memorials commemorating great events and leaders in American history.
