Wife of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King dies
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-02-05 10:32

Martin Luther King III (2nd R), followed by his brother Dexter, views the body of his mother Coretta Scott King after King was taken to the State Capital to lie in honor in Atlanta February 4, 2006. The wife of civil rights leader Martin Luther King died on January 30, 2006 at the age of 78 and was the first woman and the first black person to lie in honor in Georgia.