Widow of Martin Luther King dies - report
31/01/2006 - 12:49:00Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, has died, former mayor Andrew Young told NBC today. She was 78.
Young, who also was a civil rights activist and was close to the King family, broke the news during a phone call he made to the Today show.
Asked how he found out about her death, Young said: “I understand she was asleep last night and her daughter tried to wake her up.”
King turned a life shattered by the 1968 assassination of her husband into one devoted to enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality.
