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Washington, D.C. - January 31, 2006 -- Coretta Scott King has passed away in Atlanta, Georgia at age 78.  This file photo, taken in Washington, D.C.  on May 12, 1968 shows Mrs. Martin Luther King (Coretta Scott), left, and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy (Ethel), right, together as they join the first contingent of the Poor People's March to arrive in the Nation's Capital.  Earlier the welfare mothers marched through Washington to kick-off the march that Dr. King conceived before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.  This photo was taken less than a month before United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy (Democrat of New York) was shot in Los Angeles, California on June 5, 1968..Credit: Arnie Sachs / CNP
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Coretta Scott King and Ethel Kennedy
Washington, D.C. - January 31, 2006 -- Coretta Scott King has passed away in Atlanta, Georgia at age 78. This file photo, taken in Washington, D.C. on May 12, 1968 shows Mrs. Martin Luther King (Coretta Scott), left, and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy (Ethel), right, together as they join the first contingent of the Poor People's March to arrive in the Nation's Capital. Earlier the welfare mothers marched through Washington to kick-off the march that Dr. King conceived before he was assassinated...
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Filename: 051268Coretta_Scott_King01.jpg
From gallery: From the Archive of CNP
Source: Consolidated News Photos
Date: 12 May 1968
Location: Washington District of Columbia United States of America
Credit: Arnie Sachs - CNP
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