Denver's original MLK statue was the first in the country to honor Emmett Till.
Early on the morning of January 16, thousands of people ranging from Colorado politicians to activists to neighbors will gather for the start of the annual Marade at the Esplanade at City Park, by the city's sculpture dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. Library of Congress came up with the idea of commissioning a statue that would connect Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"King and Companion" was removed to make room for the new piece, which was unveiled on the Esplanade in 2003. After first offering the city's spare King statue to local schools, Denver finally donated"King and Companion" to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center and Museum in Pueblo.It was vandalized soon after it was installed, then rededicated in a park by the center in 2005, even as the FBI and the Department of Justice reopened the investigation into Till's death.
When the center closed, the statue was put in storage. It was reinstalled in 2017, outside of a building that was once an orphanage for Black children, and is today occupied by. It was defaced again during the George Floyd protests in 2020, but cleaned up in time for Pueblo's MLK events on January 14.
But today,"King and Companion" goes by another name,"Prophet for Peace," which makes no mention of Till, even though the statue was the country's original sculpture honoring the boy. A secondThis story has been updated from the original version published in October 2022., it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Denver, and we'd like to keep it that way.
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