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National Council of Negro Women President Dorothy Height, center, is assisted by former Amb. Andrew Young, during the ground breaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington Monday Nov. 13, 2006. From left, civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., Young, former Labor Secretary Alexis Herman, singer Gladys Knight, Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister Christine King Farris, and Darryl R. Matthews, President of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)