Should Coretta Scott King lie in state like Rosa Parks?
Coretta Scott King, Widow Of Martin Luther King Jr., Dead at 78
Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and promoter of his philosophy of nonviolent social change and racial harmony, has died, according to a statement released by her family Tuesday morning (January 31st). She was 78. The statement read, "Mrs. Coretta Scott King, first lady of human and civil rights, died overnight." King had been in failing health since suffering a stroke and mild heart attack last August. She was in California at the time of her death.
Born in Marion, Alabama, Coretta Scott rose from poverty and met her future husband while studying at the New England Conservatory of Music. She worked closely with him while he ascended to become the symbol of the civil rights movement. Although Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination left Coretta alone with four children to raise, she continued to campaign for social justice and made two goals a reality: the creation of a national holiday celebrating her husband and the establishment of a nationally recognized center in Atlanta to honor his memory and serve as a research center for scholars studying his work and the civil rights era.
posted by Pat Campbell @ 6:17 PM
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She should lay in a ditch! Call me what you want, I don't care. As far as I am concerned, the so called "Dr." King was a big commie and a fake and anyone who says otherwise is no better then a fool.
Jim in PA
Anonymous could use numberous sessions on a psychiatrist's couch. He must be stuck back in the times several decades ago. Talk about dumb!!! Whew...Jim in Pa. takes the cake!
King was a low life. It is well known that he plagiarized word for word while in grad school. He abused his wife and girl friends. He was funded by the communists. But the left wing wackos still want to build him up.
As I understand it, he even stole much of his "dream" speech. This excerpt came from a news story last month. "Accusations that King committed adultery and plagiarized material in academic writings emerged in the years after the holiday was established. Those claims remind people that King had human failings despite his larger-than-life image as a hero of the civil rights movement, said William Boone, a political scientist at Clark Atlanta University. "
"It does not diminish the mission he was on," Boone said. "People now have a tendency to sanitize him, to make him more palatable to a broader spectrum of the American population."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060116/ap_on_re_us/martin_luther_king_ap_poll_1;_ylt=Ai.LzcxqdDtkBzFzz3vBHHIg1NEA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Jim in PA
conservative first, republican some of the time.
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