Remembering Coretta Scott King 1927-2006

Last night, we lost an important figure in the Civil Rights movement.

Coretta Scott King walked alongside her husband, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the formative years of the movement. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s , she helped break down laws of segregation, and bigotry. She picked up work her husband's work upon his assassination 38 years ago this April. During the intervening years, she also fought for the rights of gays and lesbians.

Mrs. King suffered a stroke in August 2005. She died in Mexico, at the age of 78.

I'll have more on the life of this remarkable woman later in this blog, and in my other blog, "The Week in Brief: Week 5 in Brief", which will be published next Monday.