STATEMENT OF ANDY STERN, PRESIDENT OF SEIU, ON THE PASSING OF CORETTA SCOTT KING

STATEMENT OF ANDY STERN, PRESIDENT OF SEIU, ON THE PASSING OF CORETTA SCOTT KING

“Today America has lost a civil rights pioneer with the passing of Coretta Scott King, but her legacy will live on.

“The widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. turned grief into action by continuing to help ensure that her husband’s dream of peace and equality would one day be realized.

“The Kings had a strong commitment to improving the lives of working people through their civil rights activism. Days after her husband’s death, Coretta Scott King filled in for him at a march in support of sanitation workers in Memphis, and prior to her own passing she stood up for hotel workers in San Francisco by honoring a picket line and canceling an awards ceremony in her name.”

”Coretta Scott King worked tirelessly to make racial and economic justice a reality for all Americans and made sure the movement her husband gave his life for was never forgotten. The 1.8 million members of SEIU proudly carry on that legacy as they work daily to create a fair society for all working families.