HOLLYWOOD - Generous Star Wars director George Lucas has given $1 million to help build a statue of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The filmmaker has also agreed to co-host a fund-raising "Dream Dinner" in San Francisco on Nov. 19, alongside fellow supporters Carlos and Deborah Santana, Victor MacFarlane and Bonnie Fisher and Boris Dramov.
The memorial will be based in Washington, D.C., and will cost an estimated $100 million.
Fellow major contributor Sheila Johnson says, "This generous contribution from George Lucas will help honor the principles for which Dr. King stood: justice, hope, and freedom for all. By making this contribution and co-hosting the San Francisco Dream Dinner, Mr. Lucas adds to the tremendous momentum and support the MLK National Memorial Foundation has received."
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