Forgive my ignorance, but what did Coretta Scott King do that was so significant, other than the vaporous generalization, "carry on the great work of her husband"? Certainly she was a symbol for his tremendous accomplishments, but I don't get the sense that she was any sort of leader after his death.
I Googled the following summary...
Quote:
Mrs. Coretta Scott King’s other accomplishments
* spoke/preached at St. Paul's Cathedral in England
* created, planned, and sought funding for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta
* established in 1969 the annual Coretta Scott King Award to honor African American authors of outstanding educational writings
* established in 1979 an additional Award to honor African American illustrators
* assured recognition for the civil rights movement by seeing her late husband’s birthday become a national holiday
* co-chaired the Full Employment Action Council, instituted the Black Leadership Forum, the National Black Coalition for Voter Participation and the Black Leadership Roundtable
* sought to bring out the truth of her husband’s assassination by establishing that Ray did not act alone in the commission of the murder, but was instead part of a larger conspiracy; because of the materials she had gathered over the years, a 1999 Tennessee jury found that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy, not of the action of a lone killer
|