Nation IN BRIEF : GEORGIA : Coretta King Urges Black Voter Drive
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. urged black Americans to boost their political power by getting out the vote. “I think we have to be alarmed by the rapidly deteriorating situation here at home,” Coretta Scott King said in Atlanta on the eve of the holiday honoring the civil rights leader. Speaking from the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he was co-pastor, she said: “We must make every church and temple, every shopping center and every corner grocery a voter-registration site.”
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