Word: coretta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue might seem brand-new to most Americans, but the fight to free the prisoners has been going on for years. Among its supporters are 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners, former president Jimmy Carter, Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu and Coretta Scott King, widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Why would so many respected human rights activists speak out on behalf of a group of people convicted of terrorist acts...
...widow, Coretta Scott King, spoke in his place as the first non-Harvard Class Day speaker, Arnold says...
...court. Ray, 70, died this morning of complications arising from cirrhosis of the liver, proclaiming to the end his innocence in the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The King family was Ray?s most powerful ally in his quest to reopen the case -- only last week Coretta Scott King and Dexter King met with Attorney General Janet Reno to press for a review of the evidence...
...story is told of the time Martin Luther King's widow Coretta Scott King was waiting to testify in a criminal case before Judge Norma Holloway Johnson. The judge sent a U.S. marshal to bring Mrs. King into the courtroom, but he returned alone, saying the civil rights matriarch needed another 10 minutes to prepare herself. Johnson, jabbing her finger in the air, responded quickly: "Martin, I'd give another 10 minutes. Her, I want here right...
Though never as visible as Coretta Scott King, Shabazz, 61, is likewise revered as the widow of a martyred black leader. As news of her condition spread last week, King and the poet Maya Angelou rushed to her hospital room. Jesse Jackson called from London. President Clinton faxed a message. But because of her age and the extent of her burns, doctors were pessimistic about her chances for survival...