The March for the Atlanta Child Murders with Coretta Scott King
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1981. Headlines of the papers from Atlanta were grim. Children were being killed at random, mostly African American children. The country seemed paralyzed to do anything about it. As I read these headlines my mind wondered where were our leaders in this time, to confront this injustice and it dawned on me that they had all been assassinated. John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy and our Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. So when I got the news that Coretta Scott King was leading a protest in March of that year I knew I had to be there marching beside her with a sounding voice for justice. I’ll never forget that day because that was the first day I spoke as more than an entertainer. Mrs. King turned to me and asked if I would like to say a few words. Nervousness swelled up inside of me but I said yes. Eventually they found and arrested a young black man they claimed was the murderer. Since then there have been many protests against his conviction, many believing Wayne Williams is not guilty.
