US FedEx donates USD 1M to Martin Luther King memorial
FedEx Corp. announced Tuesday it is donating USD 1 million to help build a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Gina Adams, vice president of government affairs for Memphis-based FedEx Corp., will join Harry E. Johnson, president and CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation Inc., and Congressman Harold Ford Jr. Tuesday night to announce FedEx’s contribution in a Washington event.
Other companies, including General Motors, General Electric Co., and Exxon Mobil, have contributed to the memorial, according to the FedEx release. To date, the Memorial Foundation has raised USD 64 million of the USD 100 million needed to build and maintain the memorial.
“Dr. King will be the first man of color to be memorialized among past presidents and war heroes,” Ford said in a statement.
