US President Barack Obama has offically opened the new monument of the Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Obama said the 30ft Granite statue is a tribute for Martin Luther King and to everyone who took part in the Civil Rights Movement.

The stone monument is just a walk away from where Martin Luther King delivered his famous, ' I have a dream' speech in August 1963. The memorial is based on a line from his speech, "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." When visiting the monument peolpe literally have to walk through the Mountain of Despair to get to the Stone of Hope, symbollically, "moving through the struggle as did Martin Luther King during his life."