CWA Pays Tribute to Coretta Scott King

CWA President Larry Cohen remembered Coretta Scott King, who died on Jan. 31 at age 78, as a strong champion in the fight for economic and social justice. "The best way we can mourn her passing and celebrate her life is to carry on the fight for equality, peace and human rights for all," he said.

Just four days after her husband, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, Coretta Scott King led a march of 50,000 people through the city to support the sanitation workers' strike. She spent the rest of her life as a tireless advocate for social change and activism.