1969 SPECIAL REPORT: "CORETTA SCOTT KING"
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2022
- Two days after her husband's death, King spoke at Ebenezer Baptist Church and made her first statement on his views since he had died. She said her husband told their children, "If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live." She brought up his ideals and the fact that he may be dead, but concluded that "his spirit will never die."
Not very long after the assassination, Coretta took his place at a peace rally in New York City. Using notes he had written before his death, King constructed her own speech.
Coretta approached the African-American entertainer and activist Josephine Baker to take her husband's place as leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Baker declined after thinking it over, stating that her twelve adopted children (known as the "rainbow tribe") were "too young to lose their mother". Shortly after that King decided to take the helm of the movement herself.
Coretta Scott King eventually broadened her focus to include women's rights, LGBT rights, economic issues, world peace, and various other causes. As early as December 1968, she called for women to "unite and form a solid block of women power to fight the three great evils of racism, poverty and war", during a Solidarity Day speech.
On April 27, 1968, King spoke at an anti-war demonstration in Central Park in place of her husband. King made it clear that there was no reason "why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy." King used notes taken from her husband's pockets upon his death, which included the "Ten Commandments on Vietnam".
On June 5, 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot after winning the California primary for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. After he died the following day, Ethel Kennedy, who King had spoken to with her husband only two months earlier, was widowed. King flew to Los Angeles to comfort Ethel over Bobby's death.
On June 8, 1968, while King was attending the late senator's funeral, the Justice Department made the announcement of James Earl Ray's arrest.
Not long after this, the King household was visited by Mike Wallace, who wanted to visit her and the rest of her family and see how they were faring that coming Christmas. She introduced her family to Wallace and also expressed her belief that there would not be another Martin Luther King Jr. because he comes around "once in a century" or "maybe once in a thousand years". She furthered that she believed her children needed her more than ever and that there was hope for redemption in her husband's death.
In January 1969, King and Bernita Bennette left for a trip to India. Before arriving in the country, the two stopped in Verona, Italy and King was awarded the Universal Love Award. King became the first non-Italian to receive the award. King traveled to London with her sister, sister-in-law, Bernita and several others to preach at St. Paul's Cathedral. Before, no woman had ever delivered a sermon at a regularly appointed service in the cathedral.
As a leader of the movement, King founded the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. She served as the center's president and CEO from its inception until she passed the reins of leadership to son Dexter Scott King. Removing herself from leadership, allowed her to focus on writing, public speaking and spend time with her parents.
She published her memoirs, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1969. President Richard Nixon was advised against visiting her on the first anniversary of his death since it would "outrage" many people.
On October 15, 1969, King was the lead speaker at the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam demonstration in Washington D.C, where she led a crowd down Pennsylvania Avenue past the White Past bearing candles and at a subsequent speech she denounced the war in Vietnam.
Coretta Scott King was also under surveillance by the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1968 until 1972. Her husband's activities had been monitored during his lifetime. Documents obtained by a Houston, Texas television station show that the FBI worried that Coretta Scott King would "tie the anti-Vietnam movement to the civil rights movement."
The FBI studied her memoir and concluded that her "selfless, magnanimous, decorous attitude is belied by ... [her] actual shrewd, calculating, businesslike activities."
A spokesman for the King family said that they were aware of the surveillance, but had not realized how extensive it was.
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Mrs. King was a very intelligent, elegant and beautiful lady who handled herself very well in this interview. As it’s said, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Unfortunately, this interview is as relevant to today’s issues as it was to those in 1969. God help us.
Mrs. King was one of the finest women I have ever met in my life. I was in my early 20's at the time in 2004 or so and got the chance to chop it up with her in the kitchen of the King family home in Atlanta, my home town. She had a keen eye that could look through you and she would ask certain questions that would challenge you but also confirm if you were thorough or not. As a black man meeting Mrs. King and her family was highlight in my life that I'll never forget. RIP to Dr. King and Mrs. King.
That's amazing
Wow God Bless you
I love Mrs. King!!!❤️💕💜
Coretta was fine as wine.
Exactly
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Was
I did not realize how smoking hot she was!!
This woman certainly carried on the work of her late husband. Her focus/determination, all wrapped in beautiful femininity, is both lovely and instructive. Humanity is carried forward by the selfless and dogged work of such. Mrs King honored her husband when he was alive and throughout the decades after his death until her own passing.
Beautiful queen 👸🏾
I actually got too meet her she was such a sweet lady
She was so beautiful
Was
@@businesslp3027 yep , like you WAS married but your wife divorced you.
Dealing with the same issues in 2022 to some extent. Strom Thurmond was a doozy of a klansman. Now the hood's are hidden but still very prevalent in the southern voting block's.
Beautiful strong black woman 💜💙💛
Doing some research for a project ---What's the original citation for this video? What website did this originally come from?
She was a beautiful lady!
Salaam my brotha ✊🏾
@HezakyaNewz what is a good cash app amount? I would like more FOOTAGE of Coretta Scott King and Fannie Lou Hamer
Those people was setting up Martin who believe he cheated on his own wife is stupid…
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My cousin ❤
Really? That's Great
@@brendagray9601 yep! 2nd cousin
@@IamJermeezyMathis Well I Had The Chance Of Meeting Her In 1991 At The King Center, She Was Very Friendly 😊
@@IamJermeezyMathis But You Look Very Young
@@brendagray9601 I’m 19 years old. Her grandad and my great grandma was brother and sister (grandpa side) .
My grandma side (My 2nd great grandma & coretta’s great grandpa is brother and sister). I am double related
Nice lady. She followed up at least a little on her husband's business on his death. Tried to carry it on. Unlike Jackie Kennedy who had dealings with the vice president and Robert Kennedy after Kennedy's death.
Wow, she looks like Whitney’s mom/sister.
(MLK cheated on her so much… it’s insane).
MLK cheated on her with you???
She says he didn’t
Pretty sure you've done Some Sin In Your Life
But Gay Edgar Hoover Lied
Witch 🧹
And he cheated on her?
according to j edgar hoover yeah.
Yep
he was stressed. he was dealing with morons.
She said no
yup King was a womaniser