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Founders Day, March 13, 1969: Less than a year after her husband's assassination, Coretta Scott King was one of the speakers at Boston University's Founders Day. She had worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS'55, Hon.'59) at many of the major civil rights events of the 1950s and 1960s. Just a few days after his death, she led a march in his stead on behalf of sanitation workers in Memphis, and later in the month kept his speaking engagement at an anti-Vietnam War rally in New York. She also helped launch the May march on Washington of the Poor People's Campaign. In 1969, she published her autobiography, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. She met King in 1952, when he was studying at Boston University and she was a student at the New England Conservatory of Music. On their first date, according to a 1978 Washington Post interview, her “first, fleeting impression was that he was too short. He saw in the 25-year-old woman the intellect, the humor, the poise that he had been looking for in a companion. On the way home, King said, ‘You have everything I have ever wanted in a wife.'” Photos from the 1969 Hub
9 January 2004
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