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MU to install replica of MLK Memorial
Posted: 01.28.2013 at 7:00 AM
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(AP) -- COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- The University of Missouri plans to install a tabletop replica of the Martin Luther King Jr. statue this week at the university's library.

The university was given a replica statute last year by Ty Christian, a Missouri graduate who was chief marketing strategist on the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation.

The statue will be installed during a ceremony Tuesday in the Ellis Library. It will be open to the public.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports ((http://bit.ly/X2iwmq ) the bronze replica is 2 feet tall and weighs 30 pounds. It sits on a slate of the same granite used for the national statue.

(Copyright ©2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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