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Dr. Lewis E. Logan, II, Senior Pastor of Bethel AME Church in Los Angeles, California, delivers a sermon on the "Queen of the Movement", Mrs. Coretta Scott King.
After King’s assassination on 4 April 1968, Coretta King devoted much of her life to spreading her husband's philosophy of nonviolence. Just a few days after his death, she led a march on behalf of sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Later that same month, she substituted for her husband at an anti-Vietnam War rally in New York. In May 1968, Coretta King helped to launch the Poor People's Campaign and thereafter participated in numerous anti-poverty efforts.
With a deep commitment to preserving King's legacy, Coretta King immediately began mobilizing support for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, which would include an exhibition hall, a restoration of the King childhood home, an Institute for Afro-American Studies, a library containing King's papers, and a museum. As founding president of the Center, she guided its construction next to Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. King had served as co-pastor with his father, Martin Luther King, Sr. and developed programs that trained tens of thousands of people in the philosophy and methods of nonviolence.
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