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...that she herself would have been honored to hear those commitments and concerns raised up at her funeral before the whole nation. Mrs. King died after a life of seeking justice, right thinking, care for the poor and disenfranchised, and peace. I dare say that President Carter, President Clinton, Rev. Lowrey, and many other speakers were far better acquainted with Mrs. King and her hopes and dreams than President Bush could ever be, and spoke more fervently about those dreams than Mr. Bush is capable of doing. Those whom Mr. Bartenstein criticizes were there to celebrate Mrs. King?...
...such as the end of the world.” But in February 1978, a severe snowstorm forced University officials to close Harvard for three days. It is the only known closure due to snow in the University’s memory, according to Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, who teaches Religion 1513, “History of Harvard and its Presidents”. Even this closure occurred only after the Massachusetts governor declared a state of emergency, brought in the national guard, and restricted any unnecessary travel. After the blizzard hit, many people asked then...
...another speaker, however, that dished out the real partisan red meat. A protégé of Dr. King, the Rev. Joseph Lowery went so far as to bash both Bush’s foreign policy and his domestic agenda in one fell swoop, stating, “She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance…poverty abounds?...
...SCOTT KING, 78, widow of Martin Luther King Jr. and advocate for civil rights; at a hospital in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. After breaking free of rural poverty in Alabama, King met her preacher husband while she was a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music. Following the Rev. King's assassination in 1968, she sought to sustain her husband's legacy-largely through the King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, which she founded in Atlanta-while pushing for gender and racial equality under the banner of the civil-rights movement...
DIED. CORETTA SCOTT KING, 78, widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who, after his murder on the balcony of a Memphis, Tenn., motel in April 1968, hid her grief, shielded her four children from the media and immediately took up his campaign for racial equality--eventually becoming one of the most revered figures of the modern civil rights movement; of cancer, at a hospital in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. In the days after King's death, she appeared at protests to echo his message and calm enraged supporters. Later she led a 15-year push that succeeded...