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Posted: 6:14 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2013

Coretta Scott King gets her own rose in honor of 86th birthday

By Shelia Poole

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

What’s in a name?

For this rose, a lot.

Coretta Scott King, the widow of the the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a civil rights activist in her own right, now has a rose that bears her name.

The rose will make its debut Saturday in observance of what would have been King’s 86th birthday. The founder of the King Center died in January 2006.

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