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1927-2006 A. Maceo Smith High School salutes Coretta
Scott King who recently passed away. Over the years, she was active in
preserving the memory of her husband, and in other political issues.
After her husband was assassinated in 1968, she began attending a commemorative
service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to mark her husband's birth
every January 15 and fought for years to make it a national holiday,
a quest that was realized in 1986, when the first Martin Luther King
Day was celebrated.
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