[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 31, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E23]
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               HONORING THE LEGACY OF CORETTA SCOTT KING

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                         HON. KENDRICK B. MEEK

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 31, 2006

  Mr. MEEK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor the passing of a 
tremendous voice in the struggle for equality, Coretta Scott King.
  Mrs. King was best known as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 
but she was a key advocate for civil rights in her own right.
  Mrs. King was with Dr. King when he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 
1964 and marched by his side in the Selma march.
  Following Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Mrs. King championed her 
husband's work, leading the effort to establish a national holiday in 
her husband's honor, and founding the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for 
Non-Violent Social Change in Atlanta, a center dedicated to learning 
and activism.
  She worked to keep Dr. King's dream alive by keeping his ideology of 
equality and social change at the top of our Nation's agenda. She 
became a symbol of her husband's struggle for peace and brotherhood, 
but developed a voice separate from that of her late husband. She 
branched out from issues of race and was outspoken on a number of 
international human rights concerns.
  Mrs. King continued her husband's mission with a keen sense of 
devotion. She has kept his work alive and evolved his mission of 
equality to confront new times and new challenges. We must now work to 
renew our community's commitment to the ideals that Mr. and Mrs. King 
embraced, and ensure that generations to come never forget the 
groundbreaking contributions of these two legends.

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