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...LIFE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. by Coretta Scott King. 372 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
When they first met for a lunchtime date in Boston, she thought he was short and unimpressive. But she soon noticed that "he became better-looking as he talked, so strongly and convincingly." Coretta Scott soon found, too, that "M. L. King Jr.," as he called himself, made quick decisions. By the end of the date, he had told her that she "had everything I have ever wanted in a wife." As she observes in this fond memoir of their 15 years together, "it was as if he had no time for mistakes, as if he had to make...
...Coretta Scott King, L.H.D , widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. You have, as wife, as mother, as Christian woman, walked the hard road of nonviolence in fighting for human freedom...
Little Comfort. Mrs. Coretta King, the widow of Ray's victim, shunned public ceremonies after placing a cross of red and white flowers on her husband's crypt in Atlanta. A personal note of sympathy from President Nixon was delivered by Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Robert Finch, who stopped off in Atlanta for nearly an hour en route to Key Biscayne for a conference on domestic ills with the President. But little comfort for King's followers emerged from the meeting. With inflation and the need to slash government spending overshadowing other problems in Nixon...
...trip undertaken in memory of her husband, Coretta King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., traveled to Rome for a private audience with Pope Paul VI. She then went on to New Delhi to accept the $13,300 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding, which was given to her husband posthumously. After accepting the honor from India's President Zakir Husain, Mrs. King listened to a group of students softly sing We Shall Overcome, and, in a gracious speech, said: "My heart is greatly warmed and my spirit is greatly lifted by this profound recognition. I accept...