Coretta

Last night I read some more in Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, and I got to the place where , during the bus boycott , King’s house was bombed on the evening of January 30, 1956 —-50 years ago ——and then this morning on the way in to work, I heard the news that Coretta had died. Coretta, since MLK’s death, has had to constantly remind us that what MLK was called to do and the legacy he wanted went further than the notion of “racial justice”, but that reconciliation was the end, and that involved confronting the problem of the poor, and the problem of war, and how the latter further burdened the former.

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