ATLANTA – A plan passed by the Georgia House of Representatives calls for civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to be commemorated with a statute at the state Capitol.
Lawmakers voted 173-3 today to approve a statue for the slain clergyman. It would be paid for by private donations.
The bill now heads to the state Senate and has received overwhelming bipartisan support.
There is a portrait of King in the Capitol building, but not a statue of him on the Statehouse grounds.
Recognizing King has been politically controversial in the past.