The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is located in West Potomac Park next to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It covers four acres and includes the Stone of Hope, a granite statue of Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King carved by sculptor Lei Yixin. The inspiration for the memorial design is a line from King's I Have A Dream speech: Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. The memorial opened to the public on August 22, 2011, after more than two decades of planning, fu
Kahoka is a city in Clark County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,241 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clark County. The city was founded in 1857 and is named for the Cahokia tribe of the Illiniwek or Illinois Confederacy. Kahoka is part of the Fort MadisonâKeokuk, IA-MO Micropolitan Statistical Area. Kahoka is located at 40Â°25â²N 91Â°43â²W / 40.417Â°N 91.717Â°W / 40.417; -91.717 (40.4239, -91.7213).
Almost a thousand years ago, American Indians built a city along the Mississippi River in the middle of North America. Located opposite modern-day St. Louis, Missouri, this city is called Cahokia by archaeologists, and it was as large in its day as New York and Philadelphia before the mid-1700s.ut Cahokia and its hinterlands continued to shrink. By 1200, the population of the city had probably fallen to less than 5,000 people; by 1250, that figure was probably no more than 2,000. In the countryside, many thousands of farmers had already left. No more than a few thousand remained by 1250.