February I. 2 00 6 continued Its rn w r Page AS Peace fro m Front 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 .” Ingredients for life C o retta S c o tt King k is s in g h e r b e lo v e d h u s b a n d th e la te Rev. M artin L u th er King Jr. SAFEWAY 0 lOEfctAZEb «vu r»ioU*. xOur,Mi’» o , r " ’ R a n c h e r’s R e s e rv e A ngus B eet B ottom R ound R o ast Manor House Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast « i reseila»ira»iMgfwS5 96ea MawHauaM Tender tor ¿.97 «a SAVE up to $1.25 lb. Boneless SA VE up to $ 2 .5 0 lb. C oretta S c o tt King d elive rs a s p e e c h a t th e King C e n te r for N on vio len t S o cia l C h a n g e o n Jan. 1 3 . 2 0 0 4 . An im a g e o t h e r la te h u s b a n d R ev. M artin L u th er King Jr. is in th e b a ckg ro u n d . Hanoi House Hickory Smoked Thick Slice« Baton M „ 7 5-16 package save up to C lM HWCt King Sr., were highly visible in 11 when form er G eorgia Gov. Jim C arter ran for president. When in te g ratio n d isp u te at Cart« Plains church created a furor, K cam paigned at C arter's side the n day. She later was nam ed by Carte serve as part o f the U.S. delegat tothe United Nations, where Yoi was the am bassador. In 19 9 7 ,: s p o k e o u tin fa v o ro fa p u s h to g r a trial for Jam es Earl Ray, w pleaded guilty to killing her h band and then recanted. “Ever o v at*o n - no new light is shed on the fa At the sam e tim e, the King concerning my husband’s assas C enter’s board o f directors was nation, at least w e and the nati considering selling the site to the can have the satisfaction o f kno National Park Service to let the fam- ing that justice has run its course ily focus less on grounds mainte- this tragedy,” she told a judge. 3 nance and more on K ing’s mes- trial never took place; Ray died sage. Tw o o f the four children were 1998. strongly against such a move. A lso King was bom April 27,1927, in the news recently w as a new Perry County, Ala. Her father ra b«H)k. "A t C anaan’s E dge” by Tay- country store. T o help her fam rK r.r sto oo m . ea society, she often said. She becam e increasingly out- 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, The crow d gave her a standing V IT lT jic Vine Ripe Tomatoes < It, W M o Cooked Dungeness Crab Subject to availability SAVE up lo $5 90 pet 16 «" 2ml puckpgu Fresh Asparagus Standard ot taroe sue SAVE up to SI 5016 SAVE up lo $2.50 16 See Your Weekly Insert! fcflME DRY; S wings // Mfl SHFfWflM « Bl Y2B Tropicana Pure Premium i S i'« - « W z n g t u e ieKUC dnnes Club Pnce $2 50 w SAVE up to $2 M ee 2 P re sid e n t J im m y C arter during a p u b lic e v e n t w alking with C o retta S c o tt King. lor Branch, that put allegations o f herhusband s infidelity back in the spotlight. It said her husband con- fessed a long-standing affair to her not long before he was assassi- na,etl- 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- erything I ever w anted in a woman. We ought to get m arried some- d u rin g the D ep ressio n , C oretta picked cotton; la worked as a w aitress to t way through Antioch Co Yellow Springs, Ohio. In 1994, King ste p p e d « head o f the King Center, the jo b to son Dexter, wh< passed the jo b on to her otl M artin III, in 2004. Dexter ued to serve as the center operating officer. 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