A banner bearing the face of late conservative activist Charlie Kirk now hangs on the exterior of the Department of Education's Washington headquarters, placing him in the company of Martin Luther King Jr., Booker T. Washington and Benjamin Franklin as part of the nation's 250th anniversary celebrations.
Kirk's image sits on the side of the federal building alongside separate banners honouring Catharine Beecher, a 19th-century champion of women's education, and Washington, who founded the Tuskegee Institute. Anne Sullivan, who taught Helen Keller, and King are also featured. A banner beside them reads: 'Empowering our States to tell the Stories of our Heroes in American Education,' The Hill reported.
