February 2, 2005
OPINIONSLegend's View:
A woman of strength
The death of Coretta Scott King on Jan. 30 was truly a sad day, however the saddest thing of all is many did not even know what she had accomplished in her life.
February is a month to look back at the accomplishments of African Americans.
The Legend wants to look at the accomplishments of Coretta Scott King and what we as Americans can learn from her.
Many know King as only the wife of famed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
She was so much more.
Before she married King she was a civil rights leader and even more impressive after his death she continued to be a leader in the civil rights movement.
To represent a cause takes a great commitment, to continue to represent that cause after it takes the life of a loved one takes an even greater commitment. If only half of the people in this country were as committed to a cause as King the country would be a greater place.
Only four days after her husband’s death, King lead a march of 50,000 people through the streets of Memphis, and later that year took his place in the Poor Peoples’ March on Washington.
King fought for nearly 20 years to have her husbands’ birthday recognized as a national holiday.
In the 80’s she took a stand against the apartheid in South Africa by both participating in a series of sit downs in Washington and by traveling to South Africa to meet with Winnie Mandela.
She established the King Center for non-violent social change in Atlanta.
King truly shared the same dream as her husband and worked diligently through out her life to make that dream an actuality.
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