Nation IN BRIEF : GEORGIA : King’s Widow Urges March on Capital

Coretta Scott King urged Americans to join a march on Washington this summer to end a decade of apathy that she said allowed racism to flourish. “We’re going back to Washington, not as an idle exercise in nostalgia, but to make a wake-up call to the slumbering conscience of our democracy,” said the widow of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Her annual State of the Dream speech in Atlanta commemorates Martin Luther King Day, which is today. The march would mark the 30th anniversary of her husband’s “I have a dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963. A 20th anniversary march drew 500,000 people.