After a quarter of the century of fundraising, Norfolk houses a $450,000 tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. The 83-foot statue was designed to preserve the MLK legacy.
The monument also commemorates the efforts of Joe Jordan, who was instrumental in eliminating the poll tax and Norfolk's first black City Council member elected since
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