Crowds Greet Coffin Of Coretta Scott King

Cheered by hundreds of people, the body of Coretta Scott King was carried today through the streets by horse-drawn carriage to Georgia's state Capitol, where she became the first woman and first black person to lie in honor. It was a striking contrast to the death of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, when Gov. Lester Maddox, an outspoken segregationist, refused to authorize a public tribute. Mrs. King - who founded the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change - died this week in Mexico at the age of 78. For most of Monday, Mrs. King's casket will lie in Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her husband preached in the years before his death. Her funeral will be held at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, where Bernice King, their youngest child, is a minister.