Attendees at Coretta Scott King Funeral

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 8, 2006 -- Attendees at Coretta Scott King Funeral

Tuesday February 7, 2006 11:16 PM


By The Associated Press

A list of some of the politicians, civil rights leaders and others who attended Coretta Scott King's funeral Tuesday in Atlanta:

-President Bush and Laura Bush

-Former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.

-Former President Bush

-Former President Carter and Rosalynn Carter

-Stevie Wonder, musician

-Maya Angelou, poet

-Hank Aaron, baseball great

-Andrew Young, former lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. who became a congressman, ambassador to the United Nations and mayor of Atlanta

-The Rev. Joseph Lowery, co-founder with King of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

-The Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

-Dorothy I. Height, longtime chairwoman of National Council of Negro Women

-Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., former head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who led the ``Bloody Sunday'' march in Selma, Ala.

-Bishop T.D. Jakes, author and pastor of The Potter's House, a 30,000-member Dallas megachurch

-The Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights activist

-Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue

-Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, the city's first female mayor

-Bebe and CeCe Winans, gospel singers

-Chris Tucker, actor

-Dick Gregory, comedian

-Michael Bolton, singer

-Malaak Shabazz, one of Malcolm X's daughters

-Judge William Sessions, former FBI director and former member of the King Federal Holiday Commission

-Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.

-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

-Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.

-Kweisi Mfume, former congressman and NAACP president

More information can be found online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5601075,00.html