Coretta Scott King
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Photograph of Coretta Scott King, sitting beside Ralph Abernathy (right) at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. She speaks to the press after the assassination of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., in 1968. An unidentified man sits on the left. The speakers sit at a table in front of the pulpit. For nearly forty years after her husband's death, Coretta Scott King continued to promote their shared vision of equality and nonviolence.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia
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Digital Library of Georgia
