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Her spirit will remain with us just as her husband's has." I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians, Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing."įormer Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, the civil rights activist who is close to the King family, broke the news on NBC's "Today" show: "I understand that she was asleep last night and her daughter (Bernice King) went in to wake her up and she was not able to and so she quietly slipped away. "It's bleak because I can't - many of us can't hear her sweet voice but it's great because she did live, and she was ours. "It's a bleak morning for me and for many people and yet it's a great morning because we have a chance to look at her and see what she did and who she was," poet Maya Angelou said on ABC's "Good Morning America." suffered a serious stroke and heart attack in 2005. The family said she died during the night. "We appreciate the prayers and condolences from people across the country," the King family said in a statement. Coretta Scott King, who turned a life shattered by her husband's assassination into one devoted to enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality, has died at the age of 78.įlags at the King Center were lowered to half-staff Tuesday morning.
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