The official opening ceremony will be on Sunday, the anniversary of MLK's historic speech, and will include President Obama.
Update: Hurricane Irene Causes Cancellation Of Scheduled Dedication Ceremony
Via Bloomberg:
The approach of Hurricane Irene forced organizers to scrap plans for an Aug. 28 dedication of a memorial to slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington.
The formal dedication will instead take place sometime in September or October, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation said on its website. The ceremony had been intended to coincide with the 48th anniversary of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington.
While the memorial has been open to the public since Aug. 22, the foundation planned the formal dedication as the cap to a week of ceremonies devoted to King. President Barack Obama was slated to speak.
The new memorial stands at the Tidal Basin, between monuments honoring former Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. It was on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that King gave his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, envisioning a land free of racial prejudice and segregation.
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