Re: JANUARY 1, 2005 - NANAE IS DEAD
Moris
Curry, to the hospital for King to make a positive identification. A
loaded pistol had been found in her purse, and her incoherent comments
indicated severe mental illness. After King identified her she was taken
away to a mental hospital . . . King would have a scar, in the shape of
a cross, right over his heart, but otherwise would suffer no lingering
ill effects.
I'm sure that, from the vantage point of my largely feminist readers, I
attach too much significance to the fact that -- because he was
immobilized by this vicious assault -- the Youth March marked the first
time that his wife, Coretta, --stood in-- for him and that it was
Coretta King and Ella Baker who set up a temporary movement office
inside Harlem Hospital during Dr. King's recovery.
It was shortly after this that Reverend King was quoted as saying, --I
don't want to own any property. I don't need any property. I don't need
a house. A man who devotes himself to a cause, who dedicates himself to
a cause doesn't need a family.--
Very unusual for a husband to even allow himself to think, let alone say
out loud.
Of course (no great surprise) he got a house. And then a bigger house.
Stanley Levison was quoted as saying:
The house troubled him greatly. When he moved from a very small house to
one that was large enough to give the growing family some room, he was