From the Sea
1983
Welded bronze

In 1983, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. became the first private American citizen to be honored with a federal holiday. The National Black McDonald’s Operators Association helped lead a successful grassroots movement to honor Dr. King. To commemorate the fifteen-year struggle to attain this recognition, McDonald’s Corporation commissioned From the Sea for its headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois. King’s 1956 sermon, “The Death of Evil upon the Seashore,” inspired this work. King said, “There is a Red Sea in history that ultimately comes to carry the forces of goodness to victory, and that same Red Sea closes in to bring doom and destruction to the forces of evil.”

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