Word: coretta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult questions that have swirled around King's murder for the past 29 years, none is more perplexing than why his heirs have become the chief boosters of the bid by Ray to exonerate himself before he dies from liver disease. In February, both Dexter and his mother Coretta Scott King testified in a court hearing in Memphis, Tennesee, that Ray should be given the full-fledged trial he never had because he pleaded guilty to the killing, before recanting three days later. Last week, after listening to Ray's up-close and personal protestations that he had "nothing...
...despite the civil rights plank agreed to at the Rockefeller meeting, Nixon was already subtly bidding to the white, conservative South. During the campaign, when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Atlanta, Nixon resisted advice to make a supportive phone call to King's wife Coretta. A brief call from Kennedy, made at the urging of his advisers, was enough to shift a sizable part of the black vote to the Democrats...
Inevitably, the much publicized showdown prompted the larger question of whether Coretta Scott King, 67, and her son Dexter, 33 -- the third of her four children, who heads the King Center -- still have the political standing and moral authority to represent Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision. In a news conference about the Park Service dispute, Coretta King declared that "the same evil forces that destroyed Martin Luther King are now trying to destroy my family...
...Service and the King family, which invited the federal agency to assist in administering everything except the Center in 1980. Since then, the site has become the Park Service's third most popular historic attraction (after the Statue of Liberty and Philadelphia's Independence Hall). The visitor center, which Coretta King originally supported, was proposed to alleviate a serious shortage of parking and toilet facilities before the onslaught of 1996 Olympic crowds. The Park Service began construction in November but, the King family claims, failed to include them in the final plans...
...Farrakhan: I don't feel that we can go down the road to liberation without a John Jacob, without a Jesse Jackson, without a Dorothy Height, without a Coretta Scott King or a Congressional Black Caucus or an N.A.A.C.P...