Amid fine weather, thousands help dedicate King Memorial on the Mall

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Like pilgrims, tens of thousands of people from across the country thronged the Mall on Sunday beneath blue skies to dedicate at last the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.

With walking sticks and wheelchairs, in T-shirts and fur coats, crowds poured in for hours, filling 10,000 folding chairs and spilling across a large field adjacent to the memorial on the northwestern shore of the Tidal Basin.

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Juliet Eilperin 17 Oct, 2011

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