Bahamas to Debut MLK Bust on Island He Visited Days Before Death

Civil Rights leader remembered

The Bahamian island of Bimini will be home to a new bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The activist traveled there in 1964 to work on his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech. He returned four years later to write another, and memorably went bonefishing with now-local historian Ansil Saunders and then-Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. King died four days later. On October 7, the government plans to unveil the bust. Prime Minister Perry Christie said, “Dr King’s feeling was that only God could have created this spot with its pristine environment. It is critical to the building up of our country.” As part of the launch, the government is creating a scholarship for Bahamian students to attend the Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Fla. (Bahamas Tribune)