Lesbian Fiction ForumWidow of Martin Luther King dies
Coretta Scott King, the widow of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, has died aged 78.
Mrs King had carried on her husband's work for racial equality after he was assassinated in 1968.
She fought successfully for a national holiday in memory of him and founded The King Center in Atlanta to preserve his legacy….
News of the mother of four's death was reported by former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young to US network NBC television.
Mr Young, also a civil rights campaigner, said Mrs King had died in her sleep on Monday night. Mrs King had been in poor health in recent years.
She suffered a serious stroke and heart attack in 2005, and earlier this month missed the public marking of her husband's birthday for the first time in two decades.
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