US Presidents join mourners at King funeral
Ap, Atlanta
Reunited at last in death, Coretta Scott King was laid to rest beside the tomb of her husband after a stirring funeral with 10,000 mourners that was both lyrical and mournful, and at times political.The interment Tuesday capped a day when four US presidents and more than three dozen speakers took turns remembering King for her efforts to realize the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of equality for nearly 40 years after his assassination. "Coretta Scott King not only secured her husband's legacy, she built her own," President Bush said. "Having loved a leader, she became a leader, and when she spoke, Americans listened closely." The immense crowd filled the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church a modern, arena-style megachurch in a suburban Atlanta county that was once a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan but today has one of the most affluent black populations in the country.
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