Evelyn Lowery Recalls Her Friend Coretta Scott King [10min @11:19]

Her husband was driven to fight injustice and racism. And she was driven to carry on his work. Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., has died at the age of 78. For the almost 40 years following her husband's assassination, Coretta Scott King stayed in the public eye, speaking out about civil rights, poverty, and war. She fought for a national holiday in her husband's name. And she urged young activists to carry on his work. In August, 1993, 30 years after Martin Luther King's famous "I Have A Dream Speech" at the March on Washington, Coretta Scott King spoke to young people at the Martin Luther King Federal Holiday Commission Youth Assembly. That's 30 years, less a day, after the famous March on Washington. One of Coretta Scott King's friends in the civil rights movement was Evelyn Lowery. She's an activist herself, and the wife of Reverend Joseph Lowery, who founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King, Jr. We reached her in Atlanta.