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Coretta Scott King — Part 5
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that at a press conference on 4/12/68, in Memp
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he had been in close touch with the SCLC and had been assured that a
massive effort by SCLC would be made to help Memphis Negroes. He
indicated that Coretta King might even consent to come back to Memphis,
as she was most interested in the plight of the sanitation workers,
as well as the over-all Negro Community.
157-9146-22
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Cm women—e arnt shed information pertaining to the Paris
Conference Omen to End the War in Vietnam, April 23-26, 1968 .
(105-179017), Paris, France. According to the informant, on 3/12/68
at a council meeting of the Southern California Council of the Women
Strike for Peace (WSP), held at WSP headquarters, Los Angeles, Calif.,
Mrs. Mary Clarke, a member of the international planning committee,
stated that she would participate at this conference and also stated
that the name of Mrs. Martin Luther King d been suggested as a
possible delegate to the
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On 5/1/68 Special Agents observed the annual May Day
proceedings at Union Square, NYC, sponsored by the 1968 May Day Committee
(1100-16912). Esther Carroll, representative of International Ladies
Garment Workers Union, paid tribute to the memory of -Dr. “artin Luther
King, Jr., and to Mrs, M. L. King, who:: she said had-the courage to
lift the Banner of Peace, Freedom and Brotherhood from her martyred
husband,
100-16912-521
(334349
This reference captioned "International Days of Protest
and Resistance, April 21-30, 1968" indicated that Coretta King reportedly
would participage on 4/27/68 in an anti-war parade and rally in NYC,
Sponsored by the NMCEWV, At that rally King read from notes of her
late husband, Martin Luther King, Jr., entitled "Ten Commandments on
Vietnam”. (set out,} She called for the support of the PPC and the propaed
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