{"id":2107,"date":"2006-01-31T22:03:30","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T05:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/31\/coretta-scott-king-1927-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-01-31T22:03:30","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T05:03:30","slug":"coretta-scott-king-1927-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2107","title":{"rendered":"Coretta Scott King, 1927-2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/01\/31\/national\/31cnd-coretta.html?hp&#038;ex=1138770000&#038;en=435a2f7d3bf7b954&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage\">Alas.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">In stepping in for her husband after his death, Mrs. King at first used his own words as much as possible as if her goal were simply to maintain his presence, even in death.<\/p>\n<p>But soon she developed her own language and own causes. So when she stood in for her husband at the Poor People&#8217;s Campaign at the Lincoln Memorial on June 19, 1968, she spoke not just of his vision, but of hers, one about gender as well as race in which she called upon American women &#8220;to unite and form a solid block of women power to fight the three great evils of racism, poverty and war.&#8221; She joined the board of directors of the National Organization for Women as well as that of his Southern Christian Leadership Conference and became widely identified with a broad array of international human rights issues&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alas.. In stepping in for her husband after his death, Mrs. King at first used his own words as much as possible as if her goal were simply to maintain his presence, even in death. But soon she developed her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2107\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}