Word: coretta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, the Ohio Black Women's Leadership Caucus is urging citizens to wear green armbands (to signify life). At week's end, the Atlanta office of the N.A.A.C.P. called for a 24-hour prayer vigil for people of all denominations at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip. Coretta Scott King, widow of the slain civil rights leader, last week called for a series of "moratorium on murder" marches around the country, starting with one last weekend from the Georgia state capitol to the Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel at Atlanta's Morehouse College. Said King...
Also: Hank Aaron, Leonard Bernstein, Johnny Cash, Helen Hayes, Coretta Scott King, Cheryl Ladd, Ann Landers, Willie Nelson, Leontyne Price, Burt Reynolds, Neil Simon, Cheryl Tiegs...
...Carter was guilty of overkill last week when he spoke at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, once the pulpit of Martin Luther King Jr. and Sr. Flanked by the elder King, Coretta Scott King, former Ambassador Andrew Young and Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, Carter attempted to rally the black vote he needs in force to carry his native region. Said he: "You've seen in this campaign the stirrings of hate and the rebirth of code words like 'states' rights, [and] a campaign reference to the Ku Klux Klan relating to the South. Racism...
...Parks was a tired Montgomery, Ala., domestic who refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man. Her arrest spurred black civil disobedience that helped wipe out segregation laws. Honored last week with a Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize, Parks joined hands with Coretta Scott King and former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young for an emotional prayer service. Then to set the record straight, she explained that she was already active in civil rights when she boarded that bus. She kept her seat be cause her dignity was hurting, not her feet. "I hope people...