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Civil Rights

Feb. 4, 2006

Coretta Scott King's Gifts Stand Side by Side With Her Husband's

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - "I certainly appreciate your concern, and I would appreciate anything that you can do to help." That was the dignified but worried request for help that Coretta Scott King made in a phone conversation with then-Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. There was good reason for her worry - and her plea. In early 1959, her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

        
Forum Column
        
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
        
        "I certainly appreciate your concern, and I would appreciate anything that you can do to help."
        That was the dignified but worried ...

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