ماتت كوريتا... أرملة الزعيم مارتن لوثر كنج

ماتت كوريتا إسكت كنج, 78, ليلة الأمس بباجة كلفورنيا, ميكسيكو إثر صدمة قلبية.

و لدت كوريتا في ضاحية بري بولاية ألباما عام 1927 و نشأت في مزرعة والديها و إلتحقت بمدارس الموسيقي و تخرجت من جامعة أنتيوك و لقد تحصلت بعد تخرجها على منحة دراسية لدراسة فن الغناء المسرحي في بوسطون, و هناك تعرفت في نفس الجامعة على أحد زملائها و كان يدعى مارتن لوثر كنج.

تزوجا عام 1953

بجوار كل رجل عظيم امراة عظيمة

'She stood for peace'
Born in Marion, Alabama, on April 27, 1927, Coretta Scott graduated as valedictorian of her high school class and attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She received a B.A. in music and education and then studied concert singing at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She got a degree in voice and violin, according to her biography.

While there, she met a theology student from Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr., who was pursuing a doctorate at Boston University. They married on June 18, 1953, in her hometown of Marion.

As the young pastor began his civil rights work in Montgomery, Alabama, Coretta Scott King worked closely with him, organizing marches and sit-ins at segregated restaurants while raising their four children: Yolanda Denise, Martin Luther III, Dexter Scott and Bernice Albertine.

Mrs. King performed in "Freedom Concerts," singing and reading poetry to raise money for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization which Dr. King led as its first president.

The family endured the beating, stabbing and jailing of the civil rights leader, and their house was bombed.

When James Earl Ray killed her husband in Memphis in 1968, just prior to a planned march, Mrs. King organized his funeral, then "went to Memphis and finished the march," the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Tuesday.

"She was a staunch freedom fighter," he added.

Mrs. King turned her grief into the nurturing of her husband's legacy. The year her husband was killed, she established The King Center. A year later, she published her memoir, "My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr."

She spoke out "on behalf of racial and economic justice, women's and children's rights, gay and lesbian dignity, religious freedom, the needs of the poor and homeless, full employment, health care, educational opportunities, nuclear disarmament and ecological sanity," according to her biography.

Mrs. King and three of her children were even arrested in 1985 while protesting apartheid at the South African embassy in Washington, according to her official biography.

"I believe what Coretta Scott King would want us to do is continue this march toward progress when it comes to disability rights, women's rights, civil rights -- and not retreat from it," said Sen. Ted Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts.

"She wore her grief with dignity," said the Rev. Joseph Lowery, former president of the SCLC, who worked on civil rights with Dr. King in the 1950's. "She moved quietly but forcefully into the fray. She stood for peace in the midst of turmoil."

CNN
2005/1/31

God rest her soul in eternal peace!

Dear Kostawi
You know what! During our young days in the seventies of the last century, I was among the youth who did not like Mr. King's peaceful struggle and the "We Shall Overcome" sort of litrature. My heros in the Black Movement were the radicals such as Malcolm X, Eldrige Clever and the Panthars, Stockely Carmichael and the likes. After my radicalism died out with age, I began to see King's struggle in a different perspective. This is not an apology for my past. I will remain proud of that past because a person without past does not deserve to live.

شكرا كستاوي

اللهم ارحمها واغفر لله

بقدر ما قدمت لنا من تضحيات.

تراجي.

شكرا كوستاوي علي إيراد هذا الخبر الهام،
هذا رحيل رمز آخر من رموز الحركة التي غيرت
وجه امريكا، حركة الحقوق المدنية..
تجئ وفاتها بعد فترة قصيرة من رحيل
روزا باركس، المرأة التي أحدثت شرارة
التغيير لأوضاع السود في أمريكا ورحلت
في الخامس و العشرين من أكتوبر الماضي.
الرجاء تعريفنا أكثر بهذه المرأة التي
رافقت الزعيم مارتن لوثر كنج في رحلة
حياته القصيرة والحافله.



ندي مصطفي..

سلامات، و ما أجمل إعادة إنتاج
المقوله..

Quote: بجوار كل رجل عظيم امراة عظيمة

i have a dream




http://www.americanrhetoric.com/mp3clips/politicalspeec...ihaveadream35348.mp3

Quote: شكرا كستاوي اللهم ارحمها واغفر لله بقدر ما قدمت لنا من تضحيات. تراجي.

أختي تراجي .. لا يجوز شرعاً الاستغفار لمن مات وهو كافر ..

قال تعالى:

(مَا كَانَ لِلنَّبِيِّ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ أَن يَسْتَغْفِرُواْ لِلْمُشْرِكِينَ وَلَوْ كَانُواْ أُوْلِي قُرْبَى مِن بَعْدِ مَا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُمْ أَنَّهُمْ أَصْحَابُ الْجَحِيمِ (113) وَمَا كَانَ اسْتِغْفَارُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ لِأَبِيهِ إِلاَّ عَن مَّوْعِدَةٍ وَعَدَهَا إِيَّاهُ فَلَمَّا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُ أَنَّهُ عَدُوٌّ لِلّهِ تَبَرَّأَ مِنْهُ إِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ لأوَّاهٌ حَلِيمٌ (114) وَمَا كَانَ اللّهُ لِيُضِلَّ قَوْمًا بَعْدَ إِذْ هَدَاهُمْ حَتَّى يُبَيِّنَ لَهُم مَّا يَتَّقُونَ إِنَّ اللّهَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ (115)

سورة التوبة.


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