Political Quotes

“in the summer of 1962, in Albany, GA, an effort was underway to desegregate the city, and a young woman named Marion King, participating in those efforts, carrying in her arms her 3-year-old daughter and 5 months pregnant at the time, was brutally beaten for demanding the desegregation of Albany, GA. That was July of 1962. Just this week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution announced that the Cold Case Records Review Board, whose purpose is to investigate civil rights cold cases--the beatings, the killings and lynchings, the intimidation; cases that were never investigated and never solved, especially in the Deep South, especially in the State of Georgia during the civil rights movement--that review Board will soon release the full investigative files from the beating of Marion King in Albany, GA, in July of 1962. There is no expiration date on justice. And Mrs. King--who was a Spelman College graduate, married to a prominent Albany civil rights organizer, Slater King--she still deserves justice, and the work of the Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board is helping take a step toward justice in this case.”