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...Hilles. "Boys cause less disturbance in a female environment than vice versa, the HUC explained. Nevertheless, the new perspective on other kinds of disturbance occasionally demonstrated startling pervasiveness. Eight hundred Harvard students went to Washington in November to join 25,000 antiwar marchers in listening to such speakers as Coretta Scott King, 81-year old Norman Thomas and 30-year old Carl Oglesby president of SDS. Some of the students defied the march's organizers and carried signs calling for immediate American withdrawl from Indochina. The next fall, a thousand people at registration signed SDS's interest cards...
...classmates at Antioch was Coretta Scott--later to become Mrs. Martin Luther King. With her and other Antioch students, Mendelsohn worked for the still-young civil rights movement and tried his hand at local organizing for the labor movement. Upon graduation, he was uncertain whether he should work for organized labor or go to Harvard. "In 1953, the labor movement was under severe strain from the McCarthy people," Mendelsohn says now. "I made a commitment to myself then, to work towards those goals I saw for society... I hoped that it would never mean having to leave university life...
Abernathy also disclosed a rift between King's widow and the organization he left behind. Coretta Scott King has devoted most of her considerable drawing power as a fund raiser to gathering donations for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change, a research library and memorial to her slain husband. A modern four-block complex to be built only two blocks from the dilapidated S.C.L.C. headquarters on Auburn Avenue, the center is expected to cost over $6,000,000. Abernathy said Mrs. King had been unwilling to share funds with his strapped civil rights organization. King...
...next month's national convention, S.C.L.C. must name Abernathy's successor, and already a logical choice looms: Coretta Scott King...
Outside the Capitol, thousands of protesters arrived by bus from major Eastern cities to denounce cuts in the poverty program. "King Richard may as well get ready for a long hot summer," threatened Ralph Abernathy, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Added Coretta King, widow of Martin Luther King: "My husband's dream of a just society has been deferred, and it is now on the verge of being destroyed...