The Two-Way Barack Obama And John Lewis Remember The Work Of Martin Luther King Jr. 'To have the courage to go back to the place where her husband was assassinated with her kids and with the history of the previous violence that had brought Martin back to Memphis,' he says. 'I just think that that was one of the most incredibly brave acts in my lifetime,' says Clayborne Carson, a professor of history and director of the Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.
'I ask the question, 'How many men must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?' 'I was impelled to come,' she said at the time. Three of her four children were at her side. On April 8, 1968, Coretta Scott King wore a black lace headscarf as she led a march through downtown Memphis.
But her presence in Memphis, Tenn., just four days after her husband was slain there, was the act of a civil rights leader in her own right.
