Dunno if this has been posted, so I'll post it anyways.
She was just as pivetal in everything Martin.L.King did.
R.I.P. Coretta King.
Mrs King played a back-up role in the civil rights movement until her husband was assassinated on a Memphis motel balcony on April 4, 1968, while supporting a strike by sanitation workers. (Pic: www.thekingcenter.org)
Mrs King, who was in Atlanta at the time, learned of the shooting in a telephone call from the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
A family statement said Mrs King died overnight. She had suffered a debilitating stroke and heart attack in August.
Her steely determination, grace and class won her millions of admirers inside and outside the civil rights movement.
She was last seen in public on January 14 at a dinner marking the Martin Luther King Jr national holiday, where she received a standing ovation from the 1,500 people in the crowd.
As she recalled in her autobiography, My Life With Martin Luther King Jr, she felt she had to step fully into the civil rights movement.
"Because his task was not finished, I felt that I must rededicate myself to the completion of his work," she said.
She created a memorial and a forum in the Martin Luther King Jr Centre for Non-violent Social Change in Atlanta. The centre has archives containing more than 2,000 King speeches and is built around the King crypt and its eternal flame.
Aug 23, 2003: King's dream revisited
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