Well if Archie and Sammy Davis Jr. could get along anything is possible......
Ku Klux Klansman-turned-Senator Robert Byrd has won passage of a bill that would fund a memorial to civil rights icon, Dr. Martin Luther King.Byrd, who filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act for 14-straight hours, won "a significant political victory," according to the Associated Press, by securing $10 million in funding for the King monument.
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, which has already raised $40 million for the memorial, would have to raise another $10 million in private funds before it could receive the Byrd grant. The King memorial will be built on a four-acre site next to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall.
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