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Daddy King Passes:
A Great Tree Has Fallen
Dr. Martin Luther King Sr.,
Class of 1930, a patriarch of the
civil rights movement died on
Sunday Nov. 11 at Atlanta's
Crawford Long Memorial
Hospital. And at a special
memorial service organized by
Morehouse College on Nov. 13,
President Hugh M. Gloster
noted that George Washington
was called "THE FATHER OF HIS
COUNTRY” but King was it’s
Daddy.
The next day, Atlanta Mayor
Andrew Young presided over
what was billed as“A celebration
of the life of Martin Luther King
Sr.,” “a triumph over racism,
ignorance, hatred and
violence,” at the King Chapel,
built in loving memory of hisson
Martin Luther King Jr., also an
alumnus of Morehouse.
The audience numbered
about 1,000 first file past the
body. One Speaker after the
other showered praises on the
84-year-old “piller” of the world
renouned Ebenezer Baptist
Church... ... ■ —
The body was moved to the
church which has been syn-
onomus to the King family over
the years where the powerful
and the humble came to pay
their final tribute to the man
many called "Daddy King.” The
funeral itself was a parade of
dignitaries. Besides former Presi
dent Jimmy Carter, and Vice-
President and Mrs.GeorgeBush,
were Gov. Joe Frank Harris, Sen.
Sam Nunn, Mayor Andrew
Young, and three former mayors
of Atlanta, Sam Massell, Ivan
Allen, and Maynard Jackson.
Also in attendance were the
Rev. Jesse Jackson, director of
Rainbow Coalition, Con
gressman Walter Fauntroy of
District of Columbia; 5th District
Congressman Wyche Fowler of
Atlanta; former Calif. Gov. Jerry
Brovyn, Bert.loanee, chairman of
the Georgia Democratic Party;
former President Carter’s
daughter, Amy; the Rev. Joseph
Lowery, president of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, and Fulton County
Sheriff-elect Richard Langford.
While these dignitaries marched
into Ebenezer, at least 1500
mourned outside behind a
police barricade.
At Southview Cemetery,
where he was laid to rest beside
his wife, Alberta, flowers were
laid on the tomb on behalf of the
SCLC, Morehouse College and
the 1984/5 staff of The Maroon
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SGA; A Shame
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“The economic problems of Black Africa
results from a lack of intellectual capacity and
one of the best things the slave traders did for
you is to drag your ancestors over here in
chains.” — William Coors, chairman and chief
executive officer, Adolph Coors, speaking to an
^ audience of Black businessmen in Denver, CO.
