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Peace
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King becam e a sym bol, in her
own right, o f her husband ’ s struggle
for peace and brotherhood, presid
ing with a quiet, steady, stoic pres
ence over sem inars and confer
ences on global issues.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who
was with her husband when he was
assassinated, said T uesday that
she understood that every tim e he
left home, there was the chance he
might not com e back. “Like all great
cham pions, she learned to function
with pain and keep serving,” he
said. “So her legacy is secure as a
freedom fighter, but her work re
mains unfinished."
King w rote a book, “ My Life
With Martin Luther King Jr.,” and,
in 1969 founded the m ultim illion-
dollar Martin Luther King Jr. Center
for N onviolent Social Change. She
saw to it that the center becam e
deeply involved with the issues
she said breed violence - hunger,
unem ploym ent, voting rights and
racism.
"T he center enables us to go out
and struggle against the evils in our
Black History Month
day.” Eighteen m onths later - June
18, 1953 - they did, at her parents’
hom e in M arion, Ala. The couple
moved to M ontgom ery, Ala., where
he becam e pastor o f the D exter
A venue Baptist C hurch and o rg a
nized the fam ed M ontgom ery bus
boycott in 1955. W ith that cam
paign, King began enacting his
philosophy o f direct social action.
O ver the years. King was with
her husband in his finest hours.
She was at his side as he received
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. She
m arched beside him from Selma,
Ala., into M ontgom ery in 1965 for
the trium phal clim ax to his drive for
a voting rights law.
O nly days after his death, she
flew to M em phis with three o f her
children to lead thousands m arch
ing in honor o f her slain husband
and to plead for his cause. “I think
you rise to the occasion in a crisis,”
she once said. “ 1 think the Lord
gives you strength w hen you need
it. G od w as using us - and now h e’s
using me. too.”
The King family,especially King
and her father-in-law, Martin Luther
King said the w ar in V ietnam
w hich her h u sband o p p o sed "has
been rep laced by an undeclared
w ar on o u r cen tral citie s, a war
being fought by g an g s w ith guns
for d ru g s.” “T he value o f life in
o u r citie s has b ecom e as cheap as
the price o f a g u n ,” she said King
receiv ed n u m ero u s h onors for
h erse lf and trav eled around the
w orld in the p ro cess. In L ondon,
she stood in 1969 in the sam e
carv ed pulpit in St. P au l’s C a th e
dral w here her husband p reached
five years earlier. "M an y d e s p a ir
at all th e e v il and u n re st and
d is o rd e r in th e w o rld to d a y ,"
sh e p re a c h e d , “ but I see a new
so c ia l o rd e r an d I see th e d aw n
o f a new d a y .”
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was the am bassador. In 19 9 7 ,:
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considering selling the site to the can have the satisfaction o f kno
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spoken against businesses such
as film and television com panies,
video arcades, gun m anufacturers
and toy m akers she accused o f pro-
moting violence. Shecalledforregu-
lation of their advertising. After her
stroke, King missed the annual King
holiday celebration in Atlanta tw o
w eeks ago, but she did appear with
her children at an aw ards dinner a
couple o f days earlier, smiling from
her w heelchair but not speaking,
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C oretta Scott was studying voice
at the New England C onservatory
o f Music and planning on a singing
career when a friend introduced her
to Martin Luther King, a young
Baptist m inister studying at Bos-
ton U n iv ersity . "S he said she
wanted me to meet a very promising
young minister fnrm Atlanta,” King
once said, adding with a laugh: "I
w a sn 't interested in m eeting a
young m inister at that tim e.” She
recalled that on their firs, date he
told her: "Y ou know, you have ev-
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head o f the King Center,
the jo b to son Dexter, wh<
passed the jo b on to her otl
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his father in 1957. D aughter 'I
becam e an actress and the
es,child, Bernice, becam e a
minister.
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