FAREWELL CORETTA KING

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader, dies

Coretta Scott King, who turned a life shattered by her husband's assassination into one devoted to enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality, has died at the age of 78.

Flags at the King Center were lowered to half-staff this morning.

"We appreciate the prayers and condolences from people across the country," the King family said in a statement. The family said she died during the night. The widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. suffered a serious stroke and heart attack last August.

"It's a bleak morning for me and for many people and yet it's a great morning because we have a chance to look at her and see what she did and who she was," poet Maya Angelou said on ABC's "Good Morning America."

"It's bleak because I can't — many of us can't hear her sweet voice — but it's great because she did live, and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians, Spanish-speaking — she belonged to us and that's a great thing."

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She kept the militants from holding up her husband as a symbol of violent change and kept the establishment from erasing his strong stance against poverty and war. She made sure that we remember MLK every January. She was an effective activist in her own right, doing everything she could to keep the values of the civil rights era alive in today's more materialistic and self-serving climate. The left is definitely weaker for her loss.

Farewell Coretta King.



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