Newsday.com: MLK Memorial Fundraising Picks Up Steam: "WASHINGTON -- Backers of a permanent National Mall memorial to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. said Monday they are more than a third of the way toward their $100 million fundraising goal.
'He is the foundation and the moral compass for our youth,' Sheila Johnson, owner of the WNBA's Washington Mystics, said in announcing plans to give $1 million on behalf of her children.
Johnson was among several Martin Luther King Memorial Foundation leaders gathered at the Tidal Basin to launch the Kids for King campaign, an essay contest. Twelve winners will attend the September 2006 groundbreaking ceremony on a four-acre site not far from the Lincoln Memorial, where King delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech on Aug. 28, 1963. "
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