'First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement' Remembered

'First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement' Remembered: "First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement' Remembered

By Hamil R.. Harris and Fred Barbash
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 31, 2006; 5:30 PM

ATLANTA, Jan. 31 -- Coretta Scott King, who for three decades stood in the place of her slain husband, Martin Luther King Jr., as a bright flame and firm voice of racial justice, died Tuesday, her family announced.

King, 78, who lived in Atlanta, suffered a stroke in August but had made a brief public appearance on television Jan. 16, during a celebration of Martin Luther King Day."

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