August 17, 2005 @ 12:50 pm

Coretta Scott King Hospitalized

by: Alyssa Rashbaum

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The 78-year-old King was admitted to Piedmont Hospital Tuesday morning, and Diana Lewis, a spokesperson for the hospital said King was "resting comfortably" and would be kept overnight for observation, though she would not give any details on what caused her hospitalization, according to The New York Times.

King founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in 1968 after her husband's assassination, and passed the role of head of the organization down to her younger son in 1994. In April, she stood up for her husband's work when she spoke out against a bill that would require voters in Georgia to present photo identification at the polls. King has also spoken out against the war in Iraq and said homophobia in the black community must be stopped in order to prevent the spread of AIDS, according to the Times.

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