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-V mm: uwE-mI "-4 20 CENTS Atlanta, Ga. 30314 January 191969 Vol. 4 No. 3 524-6426 tiG Cccaucon Off ATLANTA Mrs. Martin section of people who were v.

i i i -i i i Luther Kine. widow of in some manner reacnea ana the-slain civil rightsr leaderHiitluenced announced here todav tt5V Board will include wtutes as that the official Memorial well as MacJcs, men anawo- renter- in honor of the Rev. men, scholars, artists.ousiH Dr. Martin Luther king, and professions and re-will be developed in Atlanta presentatiyes.of the poor, -r on two sites. The announcement of the -7 I 'r I i i 1 creation of a living me morial, combining study, celebration and action came on what would have been Dr.

King's fortieth birth as well as others. Among those who have already to agreed to serve are representative of the family, Coretta Scott King (Co-Chrm), Martin Luther King. A. D. King, Alberta King, Christine King Farris, Edythe Scott Bagley.

and others including Ralph Abernathey, Ivan Allen, Harry Belafonte, Lerone Bennett, Julian Bond, Ralph Helen Howard, day. On one site will be the permanent place of entomb ment of Dr, King, a Free 1 i I i I -4 dom Exhibition Hall, the re stored birthplace of Dr. King and a chapel in Ebenezer Mahalia Jackson, John Baptist Church which was Johnson, Clarence Jones, the leader home church tuc icauci living v.iiuiv.11 v. and which is pastored by It his father. A A Albert Manley, Burke.

Mar The other site, near shall, Benjamin Mays (Co- Atlanta University, will Chrm). Dora McDonald, Sidney Poitier, include the Institute for Non-Violent Social Change; an Institute for Afro-American Philip Randolph, Cleveland Robinson, Walter Reu-ther, Benjamin Spock, Bis- Studies; a Library and Arc- illVo, aiiu a niujtum Afro-American Life and' Gardner Taylor, Georgia. Thornton, Harry Wachtel, Wyatt T. Walker; Bishop lames Wright, Andrew If 1 Young and Ralph Bunche. Culture.

It is believed that the" Martin Luther King, Memorial Center will be the largest such center in honor of a black leader. By late Spring, a director of the overall Memorial Center will be appointed. The. Library Project of the King Memorial Center is al 1 ready operational under the direction of Dr. Vincent Harding, Chairman the The policies of the total Ahr-nnirntPnuriiihAHJr- Department of History and 1968 Bronze Woman Of The Year tA lw an intomartnnal Sociology 3t Spelman Board of Directors who re- College.

present the wide cross 1 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Iota Phi Lambda Sorority named Mrs. Mary Sanford 1968 Bronze Woman of the Year. Mrs. Sanford was named Bronze WOTY earlier in the area of citizenship. A resident of Perry Homes, Mrs.

Sanford has done much toward the improvement of the area. i i ii lf i I 1 mmj i it" i.